College and Research Libraries Selected Reference Books of 1984-85 Eugene P. Sheehy his article continues the semi- annual series initiated by the late Constance M. Winchell more than thirty years ago. Al- though it appears under a byline, the list is a project of the reference departments of Columbia University's Butler and Lehman libraries, and notes are signed with the initials of the individual staff members. 1 Since the purpose of the list is to present a selection of recent scholarly and general works of interest to reference workers in university libraries, it does not pretend to be either well balanced or comprehensive. A brief roundup of new editions of stan- dard works, continuations, and supple- ments is presented at the end of the arti- cle. Code numbers (such as AE213, CJ34) have been used to refer to titles in the Guide to Reference Books and its supple- ments. 2 ARCHIVES National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States. Teaneck, N.J., Chadwyck-Healey, [1983]- . Pt.1- . (In progress) The National Inventory is not a list of ar- chival materials themselves, but consists of microform reproductions of published and unpublished "finding aids, registers, indexes and collection guides" available for collections in the participating reposi- tories. The inventory is being published in four parts, each covering a different type of archive: (1) Federal records (National Archives, Smithsonian Institution ar- chives, and presidential libraries), (2) Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, (3) State archives, state libraries, and state historical societies, and (4) Academic li- braries and other repositories. All four parts are being issued on microfiche in storage binders; printed indexes will ac- company parts 1 and 2, and computer- produced microfiche indexes parts 3 and 4. Libraries may purchase whichever parts are of interest to them. An updating ser- vice is available for parts 1 and 2. The me- dium used is silver halide positive reading microfiche at a nominal reduction of 24 times. The portion under consideration here is "Part 2: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress," issued on approximately 900 microfiches in three storage binders, with a printed index (219p.) compiled by Victo- ria Agee; cost of the unit is $2,750. Some 792 registers or finding aids are repro- duced on the fiches, and they are listed al- phabetically (i.e., by surname of individ- ual, name of committee or organization, etc.) at the front of the index volume, to- gether with indication of extent of each collection, a reference to NUCMC as appli- cable, and the number of the fiches on which the finding aid appears. Indexing is by names and subjects mentioned in the finding aids and, in most cases, there are "double postings" of index terms: as gen- eral topics, and as more specific subdivi- 1. Mary Cargill, Anita Lowry, Eileen Mcllvaie, Louise Sherby, Sarah Spurgin, Junko Stuveras; Lehman Library: Laura Binkowski, Diane Goon, Debi Hassig. 2. Eugene P. Sheehy, Guide to Reference Books, 9th ed. (Chicago: American Library Assn., 1976); Sup- plement (Chicago: American Library Assn. , 1980); Second Supplement (Chicago: American Library Assn., 1982). 343 344 College & Research Libraries sions under a topic (e.g., "volcanoes" has a geographic subdivision "Nicaragua," and the term "volcanoes" appears in turn as a subdivision under "Nicaragua"). This makes for easy subject searching, al- though some inconsistencies were noted. A great advantage of the National Inven- tory is that it will enable researchers to con- sult finding aids at their home institu- tions, leaving their time free for working with the actual manuscripts during visits to archives.-J.S. PERIODICALS Brady, Anna, Wall, Richard and Weiner, Carolynn Newitt. Union List of Film Peri- odicals; Holdings of Selected American Col- lections. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pr., [1984]. 316p. $35. LC 83-22585 . ISBN 0-313-23702-6. To my knowledge this is the most com- prehensive bibliography of film periodi- cals that has been published, and as such it constitutes a valuable research tool for film studies. Furthermore, it is not only a bibliography but also a union list showing the holdings of thirty-five libraries se- lected for the significance of their film pe- riodical collections, among them the Li- brary of Congress, New York Public Library, Museum of Modern Art, UCLA Theater Arts Library, University of South- ern California Library, Anthology Film Archives Library, and American Film In- stitute Library, to name a few of the better known. Although some libraries were un- able to participate fully in providing com- plete lists of titles or volumes held, this list indicates locations for many titles not pre- viously reported to Union List of Serials or New Serial Titles. Interlibrary loan librari- ans will be especially grateful for the de- tailed indication of volumes held or lacked. The compilers tackled the thankless job of verifying the information for countless obscure and ephemeral publications so that each entry would, in so far as possi- ble, include the following information: ti- tle, country of publication (city or place when necessary), language (if different from official language of country of publi- cation), ISSN, publication dates, former July 1985 and subsequent titles, notes (e.g., variant forms of title), library location codes, and detailed holdings notes. Cross-references are provided for title changes, and there is also an index of title changes. The geo- graphic index, showing entries for fifty-six countries, is a welcome addition for the purposes of film scholarship.-A.L. Danky, James P., ed. Native American Peri- odicals and Newspapers, 1828-1982: Bibli- ography, Publishing Record, and Holdings. Maureen E. Hady, camp. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pr., 1984. 532p. plates. $49.95. LC 83-22579. ISBN 0-313- 23773-5. Native American Periodicals is a "guide to the holdings and locations of 1,164 period- ical and newspaper titles by and about Na- tive Americans." -Introd. More compre- hensive than other such lists currently available, the bibliography includes both current titles and those that have ceased publication. Subject coverage is broad; emphasis is on literary, political, histori- cal, and general newspapers and maga- zines. The information included was gath- ered by examining each issue of each title that was available in cooperating libraries throughout the United States and Can- ada, particularly the holdings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (823 titles). The work is arranged alphabetically by ti- tle, with cross-references from earlier ti- tles. Each entry includes as many of the twenty-two data elements as could be ver- ified . Some of the more important ele- ments included are: most recent title and variant titles, publishing history, fre- quency, price, current editor and ad- dress/phone number, ISSN, LC card number, OCLC and/or RUN control num- ber, where the title is indexed, its avail- ability in microform, subject focus, and li- brary holdings information. Adding to the usefulness of the bibliography are indexes to subjects, editors, and publishers, a geo- graphic index, and title, catchword/subti- tle, and chronological indexes.-L.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS Garner, Diane L. and Smith, Diane H. The Complete Guide to Citing Government Doc- uments: A Manual for Writers & Librari- ans. Camp . for the Government Docu- ments Round Table, American Library Association. Bethesda, Md., Congres- sional Information Service, 1984. 142p. $12.95. LC 84-11357. ISBN 0-88692-023- X. Designed to "supplement, not replace, standard style/citation manuals" (Pref. ), this volume presents in detail the impor- tant elements necessary for citing United States, state, local, regional, and interna- tional (United Nations, Council of Eu- rope, etc.) documents. The authors as- sume that a bibliographic citation has four purposes: to (1) uniquely identify the item, (2) indicate to some degree its intel- lectual quality, (3) give credit to the ideas of the original author, and (4) help locate the item being cited. Chapter 1 is a brief in- troduction to what a government docu- ment is and the purposes and mechanics of bibliographic citation. Subsequent chapters deal with the citation problems presented by each type of government document; the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Code, and the Congressional Record are dealt with specifically. Formats such as micro- forms and computerized files are also given special treatment. Examples are plentiful, and the detailed table of con- tents and an index enhance the usefulness of the Guide. It is recommended for all li- braries with government document collec- tions of any size or where students write reports and papers using government documents as bibliographic sources .- L.S. BIOGRAPHY Dictionary of American Medical Biography. Martin Kaufman, Stuart Galishoff, Todd L. Savitt, eds. Westport, Conn~ , Greenwood Pr., [1984], 2v. (1,027p.) $95. LC 82-21110. ISBN 0-313-21378-X. As the editors frankly state, the major contribution of this work "is the inclusion of biographical sketches representing de- velopments which occurred after the pub- lication of Kelly and Burrage [i.e., the 1928 Dictionary of American Medical Biography (Guide EK135)]." -Pref. That is not to say that this is meant simply as a supplement Selected Reference Books 345 to the earlier work; rather, it is intended as a well-balanced biographical dictionary of the field, with representative names from all the fifty states and the District of Co- lumbia, and including not only physicians and public health workers, but relevant educators, hospital administrators, and even some figures ''outside the main- stream of American medicine ... whose major role was to provide alternatives to traditional medicine." Moreover, an ef- fort was made to include blacks and women "whose contributions have often been overlooked in the past." Only per- sons who died before 1977 are included. Signed articles follow a uniform pattern, giving personal information (dates of birth and death, parentage, occupation or spe- cialty, etc.), summary of career, and notes on particular contributions to the field. Bibliographies of the biographees' writ- ings are each limited to five significant works (but any existing bibliography is noted) and references are given to other sources of information, including stan- dard works such as the D.A.B. or Kelly and Burrage. Nearly 100 pages of appen- dixes list biographees by date and place of birth, by state where prominent, by spe- cialty or occupation, by medical school at- tended, and there is a list of women. There is also an extensive index.-E.S. Palmer, Gregory. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution. Westport, Conn., Meckler, [1984]. 959p. $225. LC 83-12137. ISBN 0- 930466-14-4. Despite the "cip" information and the note on the Library of Congress card, this is not really a revised edition of Sabine's Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the Amer- ican Revolution (2d ed. 1864; Guide AJ47). Sabine used interviews, newspaper ac- counts, tombstones, U.S. and Canadian court records, etc., to identify and de- scribe some nine thousand Loyalists. Palmer, on the other hand, has mined the Loyalist Claims Commission records (A012-13) in the Public Record Office in London to produce this new source of in- formation. While checking, revising, and adding to the biographical records he found that "a good deal of what Sabine 346 College & Research Libraries wrote in his biographical articles still stands," and he decided that "the most appropriate way of presenting this revised and extended edition is to publish a sup- plement to the original text." -Introd. There are three kinds of names in Palm- er's compilation, each marked accord- ingly: (1) names in Sabine's main se- quence for which there is new or amended information; (2) names in Sabine's sup- plementary ''fragments'' section to which new information could be added; (3) names not in Sabine, but which Palmer has identified from the Loyalist Claims Commission records and for which, in some cases, he could add a brief note. Each entry gives the exact PRO reference for anyone wanting to use the records. Re- searchers should be aware that Palmer has not made cross-references from variant forms of a name; for example, Sabine gives "Broken borough," which Palmer cites as ''Brockenburg or Brockenbo- rough," the two forms being several pages apart in the alphabetical sequence. A chapter on using the Loyalist Claims Commission records, and an interesting discussion of the life and research meth- ods of Lorenzo Sabine precede Palmer's main text. All in all, this is a very useful compendium for scholars of the period.- E.M. LITERATURE Dictionnaire des litteratures de langue fran- 9aise. Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty et Alain Rey, eds . Paris, Bordas, 1984- . v.1- . il. (In prog- ress) ISBN 2-04-015333-0 . Contents: v.1, A-F (860p. 340Fr.F.). As the title suggests, this dictionary cov- ers French-language literature worldwide from the Middle Ages to the 1980s. Any encyclopedia that surveys a broad subject area such as this tends to be criticized for omissions or excessive coverage of one sort or another, and a French reviewer (Bulletin critique du livre [ran9ais, aout-sept. 1984) has already questioned the Diction- naire' s practice of allotting so much space to classic authors. The entries in this first of the projected three volumes are, in- deed, more comprehensive for estab- July 1985 lished authors who figure in school and university courses of study-owing, per- haps, to the fact that a good many of the contributors were drawn from university faculties. There is, however, fair coverage of twentieth-century writers: not only in- ternationally recognized literary authors such as Camus, Celine, and Duras, but - also writers such as Georges Batailles (two pages) and contemporary critics Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault (half a page each). Articles tend to the "medium" and "long" rather than a multiplicity of very specific entries. A considerable part of the book is concerned with a broad range of cultural topics from teaching of literature in schools to ''communication,'' ''bib- liotheque/' and the historical school of the Annales. And, of course, there are arti- cles on psychoanalysis and auxiliary tools of literary criticism. For each major author there is an extensive article on the life and works, a chronological table listing bio- graphical data and literary activities in parallel columns, and an extensive bibli- ography of editions, bibliographies, criti- cal ·studies, etc. A few principal works are discussed (and synopses given) within the author articles rather than under separate title entries. A general index is to include entries for individual works and for some authors discussed as a group in articles such as that for Swiss literature. The nu- merous illustrations are well selected and nicely reproduced, but they are often not well coordinated with the text, sometimes appearing pages away from the relevant article; it is hoped that the index will miti- gate this problem.-J.S. Handbook of Russian Literature. Ed. by Vic- tor Terras. New Haven, Yale Univ. Pr., [1985]. 558p. $35. LC 84-11871. ISBN 0- 300-03155-6. "Dictionary" or "encyclopedia" rather than "handbook" might better describe this compilation, but the important thing is that here we have a useful single- volume, English-language reference source for the field of Russian literature. Intended for the student of that literature, for scholars in related areas, and for the general reader, this is the work of 106 scholar contributors, each of whom was asked to write one or two major articles and a number of briefer ones from his/her general area of specialization. Articles on individual writers (including a few promi- nent living persons) predominate, but the nearly one thousand entries encompass literary terms, genres, societies, periodi- cals, and important anonymous works, together with useful form headings such as "Film and literature," "German- Russian literary relations," and "Scholar- ship, literary.'' Related areas are also dealt with in entries such as "Folklore, study of" and "Wedding ritual songs." The work assumes that many of its users do not read Russian. Therefore names are given in familiar spellings (e.g., "Dos- toevsky" rather than "Dostoevskii") and titles of literary works are given in transla- tion, usually followed by the transliter- ated Russian title; periodicals, however, are identified by their Russian titles to avoid confusion. In the bibliographies ap- pended to most articles, secondary litera- ture in languages other than English is usually cited only when it contains infor- mation not available in English. Regard- ing those bibliographies, the preface states-almost apologetically-that they are meant ''to give the reader a head start, no more.'' Yet they are so much more am- ple than those often found in a work of this kind that no apology is needed. Fi- nally, there is a general classed bibliogra- phy (p.535-41), cross-references appear in the text, and (an unexpected bonus in view of the dictionary arrangement) an in- dex is provided.-E.S. Natoli, Joseph and Rusch, Frederik L. Psy- chocriticism: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pr., [1984]. 267p. (Bibliographies and in- dexes in world literature, 1) $35. LC 84- 4689. ISBN 0-313-23641-0. In their preface Natoli and Rusch ad- dress the issue that their main "competi- tor'' is Norman Kiell' s Psychoanalysis, Psy- chology, and Literature (2d ed. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Pr., 1982. 2v.). Reviewing the bibliographies in this field, they point out that Kiell is unannotated, and that the impetus of the first edition of his bibliogra- Selected Reference Books 347 phy (1963; Guide BD10) was the" develop- ment and acceptance of Freudian theory.'' Unlike Kiell, they have restricted coverage ''to articles and books in which a fairly rec- · ognizable school or method of psychology is applied to literature. Many studies in- dexed by Kiell . . . have not been anno- tated here because we have discovered them to be in a broad, colloquial domain of psychology which has been prevalent in literary studies before the advent of formal psychology." -Pref. A long introductory essay discusses some of the contributors to a more "formal" psychological ap- proach to literature: C. G. Jung, Carl Rog- ers, Rollo May, Karen Horney, and Erich Fromm, among others. Within the context of "formal" psychol- ogy 1,435 English-language books, arti- cles, and essays have been selected from critical and scholarly secondary works published 1969-82. An introductory chap- ter on general studies and essay collec- tions is followed by chapters on chrono- logical periods; each chapter begins with a list of general items, followed by items on specific authors. Annotations are gener- ally a sentence or two in length. There are subject and author indexes. This contrasts with Kiell' s 19,674 citations grouped by lit- erary form, selected from the international secondary literature published 1900-1980, with subject (but not author) index. While Kiell may remain the first choice for broadly interpreted literature searches on psychology and literature, reference col- lections strong in literary criticism should also include the Natoli-Rusch work.- D.G. Weiner, Alan R. anq Means, Spencer. Lit- erary Criticism Index. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Pr., 1984. 685p. $49.50. LC 84-1371. ISBN 0-8108-1694-6. This is a kind of index to indexes. The compilers have indexed the contents of eighty-seven indexes and bibliographies of literary criticism, from such standard works as Poetry Explication and Magill's Bibliography of Literary Criticism to more unusual titles such as West Indian Literature and Scottish Literature in English. The work appears to cover nearly every literary vol- ume in Gale's "Guide to Information 348 College & Research Libraries Sources" series and could be useful for lo- cating material in that eclectic collection. Arrangement is alphabetical by author, then by title. Quotation marks are used for titles of short stories and poems; novels and plays are entered without quotation marks, and there is no other indication of the genre to which a title belongs. Literary Criticism Index seems designed for librarians. Its somewhat confusing for- mat and the number of steps needed fi- nally to locate the actual criticism (six, by my count) appear to preclude its being used by the typical student looking for lit- erary criticism.-M.C. PERFORMING ARTS Bordman, Gerald. The Oxford Companion to American Theater. Oxford & N.Y., Ox- ford Univ. Pr., 1984. 734p. $49.95. LC 83-26812. ISBN 0-19-503443-0. In this addition to the Oxford Compan- ions, the author has tried "to give a broad picture of the popular American stage.''- Pre[. Emphasis is on popular theatrical en- tertainment rather than drama as litera- ture, so the guide includes entries for such popular entertainments as circuses, min- strel shows, and vaudeville. Unlike the Oxford Companion to the The- atre, this work has several hundred entries for individual plays. Popularity (estab- lished by the number of performances) as well as literary merit was used to deter- !lline the plays to be included, so the reader can find the plots and performance histories of many popular nineteenth- century melodramas of minimal literary worth, such as ''The Black Crook,'' one of the major contributors to the development of burlesque. Non-American plays which were popular in the United States have also been included; thus, there are entries for Shakespeare's plays, with brief histo- ries of their major American productions. The entries for major actors, playwrights, and producers also include many non- American figures; these entries contain brief biographical information consisting mainly of names and dates of major per- formances; in some cases representative reviews are quoted. Occasionally other sources are cited, but this practice seems erratic and incomplete. The work also con- July 1985 tains brief essays on general topics such as economics of the theater, censorship, and drama criticism. Newer off-Broadway plays and younger actors were con- sciously omitted as not yet being part of the theatrical mainstream. The many plot summaries and the concentration on pop- ular theater make this publication a useful introduction to the theater Americans have attended.-M.C. International Index to Television Periodicals. 1979/80- . London, International Federation of Film Archives, [1983]- . Biennial. £30. LC sc83-7592. ISSN 0143-5663. Like its companion, the International In- dex to Film Periodicals (Guide BG124), this index is produced as a cooperative effort of archives and libraries around the world; also like the IIFP, it originated as a sub- scription card service that is now being published in book form. Since the produc- tion of the two indexes is coordinated, the International Index to Television Periodicals includes articles on television and video that appear in film periodicals as well as television periodicals. Four separate indexes-general sub- jects, individual programs and TV films, biography, and authors-make up the vol- ume; users must keep this division in mind so as not to overlook relevant mate- rial. Further difficulties are caused by the lack of adequate cross-references among subject headings. For example, under the heading "Censorship" there are cross- references to "Freedom of Communica- tion" and to "Government Control" but not to "Internal Censorship" (a heading that one is not likely to think of on one's own), while under the last heading there are no cross-references at all. Similarly, there are separate entries, without cross- references, for "Archives and Institutes," "Libraries, TV," and several individual television archives. Thus, this index must be used with care. In spite of this caveat and in spite of the fact that television arti- cles are also included in the Film Literature Index, this new publication is a useful source for libraries serving students and scholars with research interests in televi- sion and video, especially since its cita- tions are annotated. It would be even more useful if it could maintain a more current publishing schedule.-A .L. The New York Times Encyclopedia of Film, 1896-1979. Gene Brown, ed. N.Y ., Times Books, [1983-84]. 13v. $1,500. il. LC 81-3607. ISBN 0-8129-1059-1. This "encyclopedia" is actually a com- pilation, in chronological order, of New York Times articles on moving pictures and the moving picture industry. From the tiny advertisement on April 23, 1896, an- nouncing the showing of "Edison's Mar- vel, the Vitascope" to an article of Decem- ber 31, 1979, reporting on a reunion in Los Angeles of people involved in the making of "Gone With the Wind," the news re- ports, interviews, commentary, and anal- ysis (but not film reviews) reproduced here present a fascinating if unsystematic chronicle of the history of the movies. The volumes are eminently browsable and will appeal greatly to the movie fan in all of us; one can just pick a year and start reading. Students and scholars will find a unique and convenient overview of the economic, social, political, and, occasionally, aes- thetic issues that movies have raised in the popular consciousness. The index ''offers references to the most significant people, places, things, and themes" (emphasis added) presented in the encyclopedia. While the index is much clearer and easier to use than the many an- nual indexes to the New York Times, it is too selective in its choice of "significant" items"; to give only one example, an arti- cle from 1963 discussing the continued existence of the blacklist from McCarthy days does not appear in the index under ''blacklist.'' This weakness is particularly unfortunate since the cumulated index is the primary reference feature of this com- pilation of media views of the movies.- A.L. PHOTOGRAPHY ICP Encyclopedia of Photography. N.Y., Crown, [1984]. 607p. il. $50. LC 84-1856. ISBN 0-517-55271-X. At head of title: International Center of Photography. Selected Reference Books 349 Photography enthusiasts will welcome this handsome volume almost as much for its wealth of illustrations as for its factual content. Designed "to give the general reader a comprehensive view of the me- dium in a single volume" (Pref. ), it offers some thirteen hundred entries which de- scribe "the current state of the aesthetic, communicative, scientific, technical, and commercial applications of photogra- phy," indicate how the medium devel- oped, and provide information about im- portant figures in the field-scientists and inventors as well as photographers. Bio- graphical entries (about 350 of them) char- acterize the work of the photographer or other practitioner, highlight achieve- ments, and trace the development of a ca- reer. Photographs usually appear in close proximity to the relevant articles or, when placed elsewhere (as with the groupings of color plates), reference is made from the text. Articles on photographic processes and equipment are often accompanied by charts or line drawings. A "Biographical Supplement of Photographers" briefly identifies some two thousand photogra- phers not accorded articles in the main text, and there is a classified bibliography, p.600-607. Articles are unsigned and the list of contributors offers no credentials; an "International Board of Advisers for Photographer Inclusion" is named. Although the work was planned for "the general reader" one cannot but re- gret the lack of bibliographies for individ- ual articles: many of the biographical arti- cles in particular clearly required a good deal of research, and it seems unfortunate that the major sources of information are not cited . Books by an individual are men- tioned (with dates), but exhibitions are re- ferred to by title without indicating whether there are published catalogs thereof. Such reservations aside, this is a welcome reference work in a field of stead- ily increasing interest.-£. 5. SOCIAL SCIENCES Bowman, James S., Elliston, Frederick H. and Lockhart, Paula. Professional Dis- sent: An Annotated Bibliography and Re- search Guide. N.Y., Garland, 1984. 322p. 350 College & Research Libraries (Public affairs and administration ser., 2; Garland reference library of social sci- ence, 128) $39. LC 82-48768. ISBN 0-824- 09217-1. Frank Serpico. Daniel Ellsberg. Deep Throat. Karen Silkwood. These people risked careers and even lives to call to pub- lic attention acts of mismanagement, ille- gality, or corruption. To some, they are considered heroes. To all, they are exam- ples of "whistle blowers," employees who disclose any wrongdoing by their employer and chance the consequences. A substantial literature on "professional dissent" has accumulated over the past few decades, and the authors of this work have grouped the material in eleven cate- gories. The initial sections deal with cor- ruption in business, government, science, engineering, law, and other selected pro- fessions. A separate chapter is devoted to the philosophical and theoretical issues of professional conduct, ethical standards, and responsibilities. Newspaper stories and popular magazine articles are listed together; congressional documents, court cases, legal analyses, and federal/state employee protection statutes constitute another chapter. Additional bibliogra- phies, indexes, directories, and audiovi- sual sources suggest further avenues for research. Guidance to would-be whistle blowers and personal accounts of promi- nent dissenters are included. Finally, a list of key organizations and telephone hotline numbers are provided. An author index concludes the work, but a subject in- dex is regrettably absent. Within each chapter of the bibliography, current through 1982, the citations are ar- ranged alphabetically by author. Many have brief, descriptive annotations, and the seminal works are starred. The range of material includes the scholarly litera- ture as well as sensationalized case histo- ries, polemics, legal reports, popular ac- counts, and organizational responses. This compilation will be important to any- one concerned with dissent in organizations.-L. B. Bogue, Donald J. The Population of the United States: Historical Trends and Future Projections. N.Y., Free Pr.; London, Col- July 1985 lier Macmillan, [1985]. 728p. $55. LC 84- 18688. ISBN 0-02-904700-5. The present work is an extension of the author's 1959 Population of the United States (Guide CG65) and concentrates on analyz- ing the data from the years since 1960. Thus the earlier work will still be useful for "more detailed data and interpretation for the years preceding and immediately fol- lowing World War II."-Pref. Both vol- umes are intended for ''all who find they need to know the fundamental facts of population growth, its composition and distribution in the United States and to understand the implications of these facts for the present and the future." Presenta- tion is through some twenty chapters within five broad topics: overview, popu- lation change, social characteristics, eco- nomic characteristics, special topics. (This last section includes chapters on religious affiliation, the population of Puerto Rico, etc.) The strength of the compilation lies in the clear and careful statistical tables and graphs, but each chapter also offers dis- cussion of the details, a "definition box" for basic concepts under consideration, a subsection on updating the information, and lengthy bibliographies. Many chap- ters include a "Technical Appendix" which describes the means of gathering information. There are also several appen- dixes at the end of the volume concerning age and sex of the population, 1940-80, and several tables of demographic data for cities. A detailed subject index is pro- vided. Although most of the tables are from published government documents or data files, the compiler has assembled and summarized admirably. The volume could be useful at almost any level of research.-E.M. Carroll, Berenice A., Fink, Clinton F. and Mohraz, Jane E. Peace and War: A Guide to Bibliographies. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1983. 580p. (War/peace bibli- ography ser., 16) $42.50. LC 81-4980. ISBN 0-87436-322-5. The "War/Peace Bibliography Series" comprises information guides in the area of social and political conflict with empha- sis on historical development, the search for solutions to current issues, and effects on society. This sixteenth volume in the series focuses on works primarily con- cerned with abolishing war and establish- ing a peaceful world society. It is an anno- tated guide to· bibliographies published as books, articles, pamphlets, or as sections of nonbibliographic works, 1785 through 1980. Some unpublished material is also included. The 1,398 entries are mostly English-language publications and show a geographical emphasis on the United States and Western Europe. Part 1 lists general bibliographies relevant to both peace and war in such subject areas as in- ternational relations, international law, and religion. Part 2 is devoted to bibliogra- phies on peace, the peace movement, and related topics. Part 3 focuses on the causes and consequences of war. The three parts are divided into thirty- four subject categories including arma- ment and disarmament, social move- ments, peace plans, international organization, history of war, and psycho- logical aspects of war. Within each subject category entries are listed chronologically, then alphabetically by author. (Since the emphasis is on promoting world peace, works on military strategy, deterrence policy, etc., receive only a sample listing in part 1.) An excellent feature of the work is its extensive annotations. Also, the chronological arrangement of material is extremely useful for those interested in the history of the field or in locating the most recent materials. Author and subject indexes are included; however, the computer-produced subject index con- tains too many broad terms with long and virtually useless lists of entry numbers . This bibliography fills a gap and serves its prescribed purpose as a timesaver and "a reliable guidepost" for students, re- searchers, librarians, and the general public.-D.H. Hall, Kermit L. A Comprehensive Bibliogra- phy of American Constitutional and Legal History, 1896-1979. Millwood, N.Y ., Kraus Internat. Pubns., [1984]. 5v. (3,443p.) $650. LC 82-48983. ISBN 0- 527-37408-3. Selected Reference Books 351 - ·"Comprehensive, not complete" is the way the compiler characterizes this bibli- ography. But faced with 68,063 numbered entries, one is not likely to plead for ex- haustiveness. Moreover, limits have been carefully set: "books, journal articles, and doctoral dissertations in history published in English in the United States" (In trod .) are the stated province; published pri- mary sources are cited only when they are accompanied by significant introductory or explanatory material; and writings that deal with the theoretical issues of law and constitutionalism are excluded. Articles gleaned from about 750 journals account for a high percentage of citations, for, as the preface states, "Far from being a con- centrated body of knowledge, the history of American law and constitutionalism has been sprinkled through a significant number of law, political science, sociol- ogy, economics, criminal justice, criminol- ogy, and local and state historical jour- nals." Citations are grouped in topical subdivi- sions within seven chapters: (1) General surveys and texts; (2) Institutions; (3) Constitutional doctrine; (4) Legal doc- trine; (5) Biographical; (6) Chronological; (7) Geographical. Rather than relying on see also references, Hall has entered cita- tions in more than one section (e.g., an en- try from one of the topical sections is likely to be repeated in the chronological and / or geographical sections) and has used bold- face item numbers to denote primary en- tries, italic numbers for secondary entries. This use of boldface and italic numbers is carried over into the author and subject in- dexes and is particularly welcome in sub- ject entries with extensive lists of refer- ence numbers ("Constitution" runs to eight columns). Monumental as it seems, the work is termed a ''pioneering effort'' and the compiler promises to follow it up with supplements.-E.S . Oberg, Larry R. Human Services in Postrevo- lutionary Cuba : An Annotated Interna- tional Bibliography. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pr., 1984. 433p. $45. LC 83- 26527. ISBN 0-313-23125-7. "Human services" as defined in this significant bibliography include educa- 352 College & Research Libraries tion, public health, housing, and sports. The provision of such services and their impact on youth, women, families, and minorities are also dealt with. But educa- tion is the major theme: research pertinent to all levels of formal and informal educa- tional programs, teacher training, school administration, student movements, and the socialist, military, and political aspects of learning form almost two thirds of the volume. Particularly notable is the section on the famous "Literacy Campaign of 1961," postrevolutionary Cuba's major cultural accomplishment. The scholarly literature of Cuba, the rest of the Americas, and Europe has been culled through 1982 for relevant books, book chapters, pamphlets, journal arti- cles, government and international agency publications, dissertations and en- cyclopedia entries. Bibliographies abound. General, theoretical, and histori- cal works are included when deemed im- portant for introduction, background, or comparison. Great care has been taken in regard to both content and presentation. The topical chapters are subdivided into more specific sections in which references are arranged alphabetically by author. An- notations vary from brief descriptions to lengthy comments on intellectual content, flavor, author bias, strengths, or weak- nesses . Author, title, and detailed subject indexes facilitate access. This bibliography will be important to researchers whose field work is hampered by travel restrictions, scholars investigat- ing Cuban social systems as possible models, and anyone interested in the cur- rent social developments of a country that is so close but still so very far away.-L.B. HISTORY Encyclopedia of American Political History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas. Jack P. Greene, ed . N .Y., Scrib- ners, [1984]. 3v. (1420p.) $180. LC 84- 1355. ISBN 0-684-17003-5. The Encyclopedia of American Political His- tory follows the pattern set by the Encyclo- pedia of American Foreign Policy (Suppl. DB37) and the Encyclopedia of American Eco- nomic History (Suppl. 2CH22): that is, large July 1985 topics treated by prominent scholars, good bibliographies appended to each ar- ticle, and the whole intended for the stu- dent or lay reader. Greene recognizes that "political history has had to share the at- tention of historians along with intellec- tual, cultural, economic, and social his- tory," yet feels that "political history has continued to exert a powerful hold upon the imaginations and loyalties of the American historical community, and it re- mains at the core of the structure of the history of the United States." -Pref. Articles treat political events, major doc- uments, and "major issues, themes, insti- tutions, processes and developments as they have been manifest throughout the whole of United States history, from the decision for independence to the present." The first topic covered is "His- toriography of American political his- tory," after which the presentation is al- phabetical from ''Agricultural policy'' to "Women's rights." The articles are well written and many make very interesting reading, for each author was encouraged ''to take a strong personal line of interpre- tation.'' A list of contributors and a topical index complete the set. The editor and his advisory board have produced a very use- ful compilation for both public and aca- demic libraries.-E.M. The Frontier Experience: A Reader's Guide to the Life and Literature of the American West. Ed. by Jon Tuska and Vicki Piekarski with Paul J. Blanding. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland, [1984]. 434p. $29.95. LC 84- 42611. ISBN 0-89950-118-4. The "reader's guide" of the subtitle is not to be taken lightly in the sense of merely a broad-ranging list of relevant readings. The bibliographic essays that make up this volume tend to be highly opinionated, firmly pointing out short- comings of the works discussed, compar- ing differing accounts, and recommend- ing preferred versions . Emphasis is on the American West, but the entire American frontier experience is considered and is dealt with in two main sections, ''The Life" and "The Literature." Attention is given to women, native Americans, Mexican-Americans, trappers, cowboys, outlaws, etc., and to religion, the fur trade, transportation, and communica- tion. In addition to literature ("Western Fiction" constitutes one of the longest sec- tions), considerable space is devoted to films and, to a lesser degree, television. Chapters (by half a dozen contributors, with the work of Tuska and Piekarski pre- dominating) follow a similar pattern, but are varied to accommodate the specific material or topic; usually there is a brief in- troductory essay followed by an anno- tated list of studies, anthologies, or out- standing examples of a genre, with lists of suggested fiction and suggested films as appropriate. Name and title indexes com- plete the volume.-E.S. Gephart, Ronald M. Revolutionary Amer- . ica, 1763-1789: A Bibliography. Washing- ton, Library of Congress, 1984. 2v. (1672p.) $38. LC 80-606802. ISBN 0- 8444-0359-8. Compiled over ten years as a Library of Congress "bicentennial" project, this bib- liography "is a guide to the more impor- tant printed primary and secondary works in the Library's collections." -Introd. In- cluded are monographs, dissertations, collected works, festschriften, serial publi- cations, and selected pamphlets pub- lished through December 1972. The 14,810 entries are arranged in twelve topical- chronological chapters ranging from ''Re- search Aids" and "The Colonies on the Eve of the Independence,'' to ''Economic, Social, and Intellectual Life in Revolution- ary America" and "The Making of the Constitution." The final chapter, by far the largest section of the work, contains biographies and personal primary sources for more than two thousand individuals of the period arranged in alphabetical order by subject, together with many regional biographical directories. Entries include a full bibliographic citation, with physical description, Library of Congress location and call number, and, in most cases, a brief annotation. There are no cross- references except in the index, although the citations in the biographical section in- clude references to the Dictionary of Na- tional Biography and the Dictionary of Amer- ican Biography. Selected Reference Books 353 Unfortunately, the bibliography lacks a good index. "The index is limited, for the most part, to proper names (authors, edi- tors, compilers, historical figures, corpo- rate bodies, geographic locations, etc.) with descriptive subdivisions." -Index. This will aid the researcher studying a spe- cific area or battle, for example, but the scholar seeking information on a general subject like "midwives during the revolu- tionary period" must go through all of the many geographic headings looking for the subdivision "midwives." Nevertheless, the bibliography will be very useful in aca- demic and public libraries of many sizes, and will complement Manuscript Sources in the Library of Congress for Research on the American Revolution (1975; Suppl. DB21).- S.S. Goehlert, Robert U. and Martin, Fenton S. The Presidency: A Research Guide. Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-Clio, [1985]. 341p. $28.50. LC 84-6425. ISBN 0-87436-373- X. Although this work lists many second- ary sources, it is most useful as a guide to the many published and unpublished pri- mary sources for studying the U.S. presi- dency. Some fourteen hundred entries, many of them annotated, are listed in four sections. Part 1, "The Presidency as an In- stitution," discusses the many congres- sional, legal, and executive documents that contain information on the presi- dency, as well as the bibliographies, in- dexes, and handbooks which provide sec- ondary source material. Part 2, "The Oval Office," deals with individual presidents and includes guides to archives and man- uscript collections, the published writings of each president, sources for radio and television coverage, and bibliographies. Part 3, "Running for Office," identifies tools for studying campaign finances, in- terest groups, media, conventions, pri- maries, and election results. "Research- ing the Presidency," the final section, includes a six-page essay on research strategy and twenty-six appendixes pro- viding charts and tables designed to help the user identify research tools. There are name and title indexes, but the guide's major flaw is the lack of a subject index; 354 College & Research Libraries this is only partly compensated by the ap- pendixes and the extensive table of contents.-S.S. Kaplan, Jonathan, ed. International Bibliog- raphy of Jewish History and Thought. Miinchen, K. G. Saur; Jerusalem, Magnes Pr., Hebrew Univ., 1984. 483p. $41. LC 84-188389. ISBN 3-598-07503-0. The first volume of a new bibliographi- cal project sponsored by the Rothberg School for Overseas Students of the He- brew University, this bibliography has as its aim to list the major works in the field of Jewish studies whether published in He- brew or in various European languages. Because the subject areas of Jewish history and thought are so vast, the number of works included had, of necessity, to be limited. The approximately two thousand volumes listed were considered to have value for scientific study and represented, in most cases, the most up-to-date re- search available. The bibliography is di- vided into six sections: General Works; The Biblical Period; The Period of the Sec- ond Temple, the Mishnah and the Tal- mud; The Medieval Period; The Modern Period; and Jewish Communities. Sec- tions are further divided either by date, topic of interest, or geographic area. Within sections the works are entered al- phabetically by author, editor, or title (when no author is known); there are sep- arate listings for books written in Hebrew and for those in European languages; and a book is always listed in the most specific category possible. In the case of transla- tions or multilingual volumes, cross- references are provided between the He- brew and the European-language sections. Each entry includes only that in- formation essential for identifying it, plus a brief note on the contents. Completing the volume is an index of authors, e.ditors, translators, and people to whom fest- schriften or memorial volumes were dedicated.-L.S. NEW EDITIONS, SUPPLEMENTS, ETC. Nearly 1,200 bibliographies published as books, parts of books, or as periodical July 1985 articles during the 1980-83 period are cited in Yvette Scheven' s Bibliographies for Afri- can Studies, 1980-1983 (Miinchen, Hans Zell/K. G. Saur, 1984. 300p. $36). It con- tinues the compiler's earlier listings cover- ing 1970-75 (Suppl. DD14) and 1976-79 (Suppl. 2DD14). The second edition of A Dravidian Ety- mological Dictionary by Thomas Burrow and Murray B. Emeneau (Oxford, Claren- don Pr.; N.Y., Oxford Univ. Pr., 1984. 853p. $74) incorporates the fruits of new scholarship with the material published in the 1961 edition of the dictionary (Guide AD233) and its 1968 supplement. To a large extent, the second edition of The Oxford Russian-English Dictionary by Marcus Wheeler (N.Y., Oxford Univ. Pr., 1984. 930p. $34.95) is a reprinting, with corrections, of the 1972 edition (Guide AD596), but some new entries and addi- tional meanings have been inserted. There is also a new appendix of Russian geographical names with their English equivalents. The volume has been joined by a complementary work, The Oxford English-Russian Dictionary edited by P. S. Falla (N.Y., Oxford Univ. Pr., 1984. 1052p. $60). Like the companion work, "it is in- tended mainly, though not exclusively, for English-speaking users at university or similar level.''-Pref. Latin America and the West Indies are the areas covered by V .4 of the Historical Periodicals Directory (Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-Clio, 1985. 157p. $89). It provides in- formation on more than thirteen hundred periodicals relating to history and allied fields. Prepared in the Serial and Government Publications Division of the Library of Congress, the fourth edition of Popular Names of U.S. Government Reports (Wash., Lib. of Congress, 1984. 272p. $12) updates the 1976 edition (Guide AG29), providing useful links between the corporate and in- stitutional forms of entry used in most li- brary catalogs and the popular names of reports used in the media and by library users. Bernard A. Bernier, Jr., and Karen Wood are the compilers. The new index volume for the National Cyclopedia of American Biography (Clifton, N.J., James T. White & Co., 1984. 576p.) supersedes the 1979 index (Suppl. 2AJ16), providing personal name and topical in- dexing of all volumes published 1891-1984. That is, it covers "Permanent series" volumes 1-62, "Current series" volumes A-M, plus volume N-63 (publ. 1984), which carries both a number and a letter designation to indicate that it in- cludes biographies of both deceased and living persons. Although textual changes have been af- fected without resetting, and the maps have not been redrawn, the third edition of the Oxford Bible Atlas (N.Y., Oxford Univ. Pr., 1984. 144p. $18.95; 2d ed. 1974; Guide BB187) as revised by John Day ex- hibits numerous changes throughout. Some new illustrations have been inserted and map colors have been changed or shadings intensified to provide greater clarity. The Crown Guide to the World's Great Plays by Joseph T. Shipley (N.Y., Crown, 1984. 866p. $24.95) is a revised and up- dated edition of Shipley's Guide to Great Plays (1956; Guide BD163). Revision in- volved not merely deleting old titles to ac- commodate newer ones, but reconsider- ation of various plays not induded in the first edition. While much of the text is un- changed from the earlier volume, new critical notes and information about signif- icant revivals of the last decades have been added to many of the existing articles. For many of the playwrights dealt with in Floyd E. Eddelman's American Drama Criticism; Supplement I to the Second Edition (Hamden, Conn., Shoe String Pr., 1984. 255p. $29.50) a "general" section is in- cluded preceding the entries for individ- ual plays. Cut-off date for the supplement appears to be 1982, with a few 1983 items listed. "Hamlet," "Timon of Athens," "Twelfth Night," "The Comedy of Er- rors," and "Henry IV, Parts I and II" are the plays under consideration in the first volume of Shakespearean Criticism, edited by Laurie Lanzen Harris (Detroit, Gale, 1984. v.1: 683p. $72). As stated in the sub- title, this new series-similar to the pub- lisher's Twentieth-Century Literary Criti- cism and 19th-Century Literature Criticism-offers ''excerpts from the criti- Selected Reference Books 355 cism of William Shakespeare's plays and poetry, from the first published appraisals to current evaluations." Four more vol- umes (of which each wilt presumably, of- fer a similar mix of major and minor trage- dies and comedies, and the histories) are to be devoted to the individual plays, while additional volumes on performance criticism and other special topics are also planned. Twentieth-Century Short Story Explica- tion; Supplement II to Third Edition by War- ren S. Walker (Hamden, Conn., Shoe String Pr., 1984. 348p. $35) extends cover- age of the work (Guide BD202) through 1981, adding another 246 authors to the to- tal number of short story writers cited. Although designated "revised" on the title page, the new V. 2 of A Critical Bibliog- raphy of French Literature: The Sixteenth Century, edited by Raymond C. La Charite (Syracuse, Syracuse Univ. Pr., 1985. 847p. $34.95) is "neither a revised edition of the 1956 publication [Guide BD708] nor a mere supplement to it. It is an entirely new and comprehensive work. The 1956 publica- tion is not to be dismissed, however . Nu- merous entries in this volume refer specif- ically by number to assessments in the 1956 volume, and readers will no doubt profit from cross-references and compari- sons that are both explicit and implicit."- Introd. There has been some reorganiza- tion of content; cut-of£ date is 1981; sections are again the work of single con- tributors or teams of scholars. Arctic, edited by David Damas (Wash., Smithsonian Inst., 1984. 829p. $29) forms V .5 of the Handbook of North American Indi- ans (Suppl. CD25, 2CD13). With major sec- tions on peoples of the Western Arctic, Canadian Arctic, and Greenland, this vol- ume will be the principal source for infor- mation on Eskimos and Aleuts in the Handbook series, but the preface points out that a number of relevant topics are dealt with in other volumes of the set. Issued as no.8 in the "Supplement se- ries" of the Statistical Abstract of Latin America (Suppl. CG43), Richard W. Wilkie's Latin American Population and Ur- banization Analysis: Maps and Statistics, 1950-1982 (Los Angeles, UCLA Latin American Center Pubns., 1984. 433p. $65) 356 College & Research Libraries "attempts to assemble the most recent population data on the twenty Latin American republics" (Introd. ), presenting the information through charts, maps, and photographs. Data for Latin America as a whole precedes that for individual countries. Major sources for the tables of statistics are cited. Population Index Bibliography, Cumulated 1969-1981 by Authors and Geographical Ar- eas (Boston, G. K. Hall, 1984. 4v . $310) re- flects the move toward increased comput- erization of the work involved in preparing the Population Index (Guide CG21). Volume 1, an author index for the July 1985 1969-74 period, provides photographic re- production of the bibliographic citations found in the quarterly issues of the Index, presented alphabetically by author in much the same manner as the 1935-68 cu- mulation. Volume 2, covering 1975-77, represents the first stage of computeriza- tion; it is again an alphabetical author ar- rangement, but subject and geographical indexes have been added. Finally, vol- umes 3-4 cover 1978-81 and show a more advanced stage of the computerization process, still offering the author/subject/ geographical approaches of the preceding section.-E.S. arching? For a great source of zoological.literature? Search No Further! 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