College and Research Libraries Selected Reference Books of 1987-88 Eileen Mcilvaine his article follows the pattern set by the semiannual series ini- tiated by the late Constance M. Winchell more than thirty years ago and continued by Eugene P. Sheehy. Although it appears under a byline, the list is a project of the reference depart- ments of Columbia University 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 comprehen- sive. A brief roundup of new editions of standard works is provided at the end of the article. Code numbers (such as AD540, CJ331) have been used to refer to titles in Guide to Reference Books. 2 LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANS HIP Directory of Library and Information Profes- sionals. Published in collaboration with the American Library Association. Woodbridge, Conn.: Research Publica- tions, 1988. 2v. $345 (ISBN 0-89235-125- X). Directory of Library and Information Profes- sionals on CD-ROM. Database by Re- search Publications, Inc. Woodbridge, Conn.: Kaware2 Retrieval System by Knowledge Access, Mountain View, Calif. Distributed by the American Li- brary Assn. 1988. $495 (ISBN 0-83890- 486-6). DLIP, in both paper and CD-ROM for- mats, is the product of an ambitious col- laborative effort to provide a comprehen- sive biographical reference tool for the information professional. To assure the broadest coverage possible, the pub- lishers enlisted the help of key associa- tions in the library profession and infor- mation industry, and made use of the membership lists of twenty additional rel- evant organizations. Volume one of the directory lists entries for about 43,000 individuals, more than triple the number included in the last pub- lication of this kind, the Who's Who in Li- brary and Information Services (Guide AB101). A full entry contains not only bio- graphical, educational, and career infor- mation, but also indicates subject spe- cialty and consulting expertise. Data for the listing were culled from completed questionnaires. However, in order to in- clude prominent professionals who did not respond to the mailing, entries were compiled for them from publicly available data. To qualify for inclusion, entrants must work in the information field at a professional level, and/ or ally themselves personally with the field through mem- bership in national professional associa- 1. Avery: Max Marmor, Barbara Sykes-Austin; Business: James Coen; Butler Reference: Mary Cargill, Beth Juhl, Anita Lowry, Kirk Moll, Louise Sherby, Junko Stuveras; Lehman: Diane Goon, William Middleton; Library Service: Olha della Cava. 2. Eugene P. Sheehy, Guide to Reference Books, lOth ed. (Chicago: American Library Assn., 1986). 83 84 College & Research Libraries tions. Four indexes, taking up the entire second volume, provide access to the list- ings by specialty, employer, consulting expertise, and geography. Enhanced access and sophisticated ma- nipulation of data contained in the listings are available to those opting for the CD- ROM version of DLIP (the price of the two formats is somewhat comparable). In- cluded are such features as full Boolean searching capabilities with term trunca- tion, field searching through 34 indexed data fields, functions grouped for search- ing by employer type, zip code, etc., and save set capability for repeat searches. In addition, such features as a user-added data field for notes, a cross tabulation ca- pability for analysis purposes, as well as ASCII output for use with word proces- sors or database managers enable the di- rectory to be used for a wide range of prac- tical and research needs, including demographic, market, and geographic analysis of the information profession. However, as with any directory, some of the information in DLIP is already out of date. Moreover, because of its reliance on a mail survey, it is, in spite of its large size, woefully incomplete. Powerful retrieval software does not make up for this short- coming. Aware of these shortcomings, the pub- lishers wisely conceived of the Directory as an ongoing project. It is, therefore, up to the members of the library and informa- tion profession to keep this tool up-to-date and make it more representative.-O.dC. Filby, P. William. Directory of American Li- braries with Genealogy or Local History Col- lections. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, [1988]. 319p. $75 (ISBN 0- 8420-2286-4). LC 87-37109. Filby has compiled bibliographies and indexes of passenger lists (Guide AK25, AK35) and guides to using genealogical material (Guide AK24). To answer ques- tions of availability he has compiled a di- rectory based on responses to question- naires received from 1,500 libraries in the United States and Canada. For each li- brary the entry gives name, address, tele- phone number, hours, lending policy, head of local history or genealogy section, size and contents of the local history or ge- January 1989 nealogy collection, and available guides or indexes. The arrangement is geographical by state and city and then by Canadian province and city. A supplementary index lists libraries with significant out-of-state collections or- ganized by state, region and ethnic group, province, or country to which the collec- tion pertains. Useful for research libraries in history as well as those public and pri- vate libraries maintaining large genealogi- cal collections.-E.M. MICROFORMS Bibliographic Guide to Microform Publications, 1987- . Boston: Hall, 1988- . An- nual. $215 (ISBN 0-8161-7078-9). LC 88- 659660. This Bibliographic Guide is an annual publication based on the holdings of the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library, which "represents an at- tempt to make available microform catalog records from two of the major research li- braries . . . encompassing both purchased and internally produced microforms for nonserial type material" (Foreword). The format of this catalog is similar to the New York Public Library's dictionary catalog with author, title, series, and subject ac- cess. The 1987 edition includes the micro- forms cataloged between September 1, 1986, and August 31, 1987. A number of South Asian materials and documentary collections such as the records of the Pres- byterian church in the United States are included in this issue. The large areas of subject coverage by the two libraries make this catalog a very useful tool in identifying research materi- als, and in locating copies for interlibrary loan or for microform masters. One hopes this annual publication will cumulate periodically. -J. S. BIOGRAPHY Biographical Dictionary of Latin American and Caribbean Political Leaders. Ed. Robert J. Alexander. New York: Greenwood, 1988. 509p. $75 (ISBN 0-313-24353-0). LC 87-17805. Intended as a partial companion to the 1982 Political Parties of the Americas (Guide CJ246), this dictionary contains "over 450 biographical sketches of the most impor- tant political figures in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Latin America and the Caribbean" (Pre£.). Entries are signed and include brief bibliographies. A chro- nology of political events, a listing of biog- raphies by country, and an index are in- cluded. Political parties and organizations are usually indexed under both their acro- nyms and full names (in English), al- though cross references between the two forms are not provided. Scope of coverage is necessarily limited; emphasis is on political leaders- presidents, dictators, and prime minis- ters. Opposition and minority figures are not generally allotted full entries, though they are frequently mentioned in the es- says. Biographical Dictionary is useful for thumbnail sketches of specific political fig- ures. Readers interested in broad political movements or the political history of a particular country may make use of the bibliographical references for further research.-B.J. RELIGION Edelheit, Abraham J ., and Hershel Edelheit. The Jewish World in Modern Times; A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1988. 569p. $65 (ISBN 0-8133-0572-1). LC 87-35200. The Jewish World in Modern Times looks at the most important works appearing in the English language that deal with mod- ern Jewish history, defined as mid- seventeenth century to the present- approximately 350 years. The bibliography is introduced by a brief essay that summarizes the most important events, people, places, etc., that define modem Jewish history. This sets the stage for the two sections that follow. Part 1: Jewish World is arranged by broad topics such as ''Social History,'' ''Religious Trends," "Antisemitism," etc. Part IT: Jewish Community is arranged by geo- graphic region beginning with general surveys followed by country discussions in alphabetical order. Separate chapters cover the U.S.S.R./Russia, the United States and Canada, and Israel. The vol- ume also includes a glossary of terms and Selected Reference Books 85 author/title/subject indexes. The works included are limited to those in English and those that are considered important as well as readily available to the Ameri- can reading public. Thus, unpublished items and those that might be found only in the largest research libraries are ex- cluded. The annotations are brief but criti- cal and describe the contents of the book as well as the methodology used. Factual errors are also noted. This is an important work that should be in every collection with an interest in Jewish history and Judaica.-L.S.S. Kaske, R. F., in collaboration with Arthur Gross and Michael W. Twomey. Medi- eval Christian Literary Imagery: A Guide to Interpretation. Toronto Medieval Bibli- ographies, 11. Toronto: Univ. of To- ronto Pr., [1988]. 247p. $30 (ISBN 0- 8020-2636-2). This work is an excellent addition to the fine series of medieval bibliographies pub- lished by University of Toronto Press in association with the Centre for Medieval Studies. It is a revision and expansion of the lectures and bibliographies produced by Kaske and Gross for a seminar on "re- search in medieval literature," which they have alternated teaching for many years at Cornell University. The main purpose of this bibliography is to help literature stu- dents and scholars identify and interpret the sources of medieval literary imagery. It provides a detailed introduction to the primary texts and tools for studying medi- eval biblical exegesis, liturgy, hymns, ser- mons, visual arts, and mythography. It also includes a chapter dealing with com- mentaries and tools for studying major au- thors (i.e., Augustine, Boethius, Dante) and a large chapter covering various sub- jects of medieval imagery such as Mary, the mother of Jesus, the cross, eschatol- ogy, number and color. An appendix on medieval encyclopedias is provided by Michael Twomey. Indexes include sub- jects, medieval authors, and texts; mod- ern authors, editors, and translators; manuscripts; and modem translations. While this work is primarily oriented to the literary student, in practice it serves as a very useful introduction. No other work provides such helpful bibliographic strate- 86 College & Research Libraries gies for accessing these types of medieval literature. The work will also well serve the needs of art history students and scholars who are searching for literary evi- dence and sources for the imagery in the artistic works which they are studying.- K.M. MYTHOLOGY Lindow, John. Scandinavian Mythology: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland Folk- lore Bibliographies, no. 13. New York: Garland, 1988. 593p. $25 (ISBN 0-8240- 9173-6). LC 87-29280. This selective, annotated bibliography, compiled by a professor of Scandinavian Languages at the University of California, Berkeley, lists over 3,000 books and arti- cles dealing with Scandinavian mythol- ogy written from the 1830s (when the sci- entific study of folklore began) through 1982. The vast majority of these works are in German or one of the Scandinavian lan- guages. The author defines Scandinavian mythology as comprising the ''body of texts, recorded mostly in the thirteenth century in Iceland and dealing with Scan- dinavian pagan gods" (Introd.). Materials dealing with Scandinavian folklore have not been included, except in cases where the folk customs are clearly remnants of older religious beliefs. · The guide is arranged alphabetically by author, with a detailed subject index. This unfortunately means the reader has to flip back and forth to find multiple entries. The index headings do not appear to be comprehensive. For instance, there are several popular retellings of the stories listed in the author section, but I could · find no subject heading listing such treat- ments. Due to the difficulty in finding material and the scarcity of English-language sources, this guide will be most useful with large Scandinavian collections.- M.C. LITERATURE Dictionary of Brazilian Literature. Irwin Stern, Ed.-in-chief. New York: Green- wood, 1988. 402p. $65 (ISBN 0-313- January 1989 24932-6). LC 87-17744. Recent years have seen something of a boomlet in the publishing of English- language reference works on Hispanic lit- erature. In the last few seasons, Green- wood Press has brought forth both Women Writers of Spain and Women Writers of Latin America. Now it has published this Dictio- nary of Brazilian Literature, which provides an introduction to Brazilian authors and literary movements for the English speaker. The main body of this Dictionary consists of approximately 300 entries on authors, genres, themes, movements, and other topics (art, music, dictatorship, soccer) which relate to Brazilian letters. Entries are contributed by 46 American, British, and Brazilian scholars and are signed. Twentieth-century writers and move- ments are emphasized. Each author entry includes a biographical sketch and critical evaluation and a bibliography of selected works, translations into English, and sec- ondary sources (mostly in English). Fre- quent cross references, a glossary of Bra- zilian terms, a list of periodical abbreviations, and an index complete the volume. Broader in scope than the Dictionary of Contemporary Brazilian Authors (Guide BD1113), the Dictionary of Brazilian Litera- ture should prove valuable both for read- ers who cannot read Portuguese and for scholars in the field.-B.J. Dietzel, Thomas, and Hans-Otto Hiigel. Deutsche Literarische Zeitschriften, 1880-1945: ein Repertorium. Munich, New York: Saur, 1988. 5v. $470(ISBN3- 598-10645-9). This set, prepared at the Deutsche Li- teraturarchive in Marbach, is essentially a continuation of the Estermann bibliogra- phy (below). The compilers avoided du- plicating titles. The information provided for each of the 3,341 titles generally includes the pub- lication dates, editorial history, publica- tion history, detailed collation, selected lo- cations, and, in many cases, the major contributors. The compilers checked the holdings of nearly 200 Western and East- em European libraries. Secondary litera- ture about individual journals found in books, articles, and dissertations is also provided, when available. There are five indexes: (1) by editor; (2) by contributor; (3) by publisher; (4) by place of publication; and (5) by type of publication. The last index is particularly useful. A reader can easily find, for exam- ple, a list of women's magazines, film magazines, and so forth. These two publications provide libraries with detailed, easy to use, and complete information covering 100 years of German literary history. They are essential for any research library.-M.C. Estermann, Alfred. Die Deutschen Literatur-Zeitschriften, 1850-1880: Biblio- graphien, Programme. Munich, New York: Saur, 1988. 5v. $750 (ISBN 3-598- 10708-0). A continuation of the author's ten- volume Die Deutschen Literatur-Zeitschrif- ten, 1815-1850 (Nendeln, KTO, 1977-1981), the bibliography is an alpha- betical list of 2, 953 journals appearing be- tween 1850 and 1880. The dates are only guidelines; a title, for instance, which ceased publication in 1851, with the ma- jority of issues appearing before 1850 would be listed in the earlier set. The compiler has included literary as well as cultural and general interest titles published in German anywhere in Eu- rope. The information provided for each entry includes, when it could be deter- mined, the title and variant titles, the places and dates of publication, selected locations and call numbers in German and other European libraries, the editorial his- tory, and a detailed collation. In many cases the introductions or prospectuses are reprinted. The last volume includes in- dexes by editor, type of publication, and publisher.-M.C. Location Register of Twentieth-Century En- glish Literary Manuscripts and Letters: A Union List of Papers of Modern English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh Authors in the British Isles. London: British Library; Boston: Hall, 1988. 2v. (1,054p.) $175 (ISBN 0-8161-8981-1). LC 88-1546. Sponsored by the Advisory Committee Selected Reference Books 87 on Manuscripts of the Society of the Standing Conference of National and Uni- versity Libraries, funded by the Strachey Trust, the Location Register is a product of an automated file at the University of Reading Library. The contents are very carefully spelled out with definitions for each term in the title. English means En- glish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh "but also im- migrants, refugees and others who spent a considerable part of their life in the Brit- ish Isles" (Introd.); literary defines "po- ets, novelists, dramatists and men and women of letters of all styles and quanti- ties"; twentieth century refers to "anyone who lived beyond the year 1899." All public and most private institutions are covered but not collections held by pri- vate individuals unless specifically re- quested .. The cut-off date is November 1987. Authors are presented alphabeti- cally with manuscripts listed first followed by letters. Often for an author the first en- try is a note pointing out major collections in the United States (usually with NUC- MC reference) and Canada or a statement of the "authors' policies for retention or destruction of their papers.'' For each col- lection of letter(s) or each manuscript the annotation includes the dates when writ- ten, occasionally a description, and the name of the repository. The Appendix gives a complete address for each reposi- tory. Scholars and librarians have received a wondrous gift-an inventory easy to use, necessary, thorough, and fairly current. One hopes that the volumes will be up- dated either online or through supplements.-E.M. PERFORMING ARTS Handbook of American Film Genres. Ed. by Wes D. Gehring. New York: Green- wood, 1988. 405p. $49.85 (ISBN 0-313- 24715-3). LC 87-31784. Among the justifications for studying film genres advanced by Wes Gehring in his ''Introduction'' to this handbook, per- haps the most compelling for librarians is the fact that ''the genre approach is . . . probably the classification system most fa- miliar to viewers." Many film courses are 88 College & Research Libraries organized around a particular genre, as are the research interests of many stu- dents and scholars, including those in other disciplines as well as in film studies. For these students, the Handbook of Ameri- can Film Genres provides a good introduc- tion to the concept and classification of major film genres, to the nature of specific genres, and to the critical and historical lit- erature of various film genres. Nineteen different, though occasionally overlapping, film genres are discussed in individual chapters grouped according to five broad categories: Action/ Adventure Genres (e.g., the western and film noir), Comedy Genres (e.g., screwball comedy and populist comedy), The Fantastic (e.g., horror and science fiction), Songs and Soaps (the musical and melodrama), and Nontraditional Genres (e.g., the social problem film and biographical film). Each chapter consists of an essay defining and analyzing the genre and some of its exem- plars, a bibliographic essay surveying the secondary literature, a bibliographical checklist, and a selected filmography. The bibliographies are limited to books and se- lected periodical articles in English, and the filmographies list fewer than fifteen films in most cases, making this a refer- ence tool for students or others just begin- ning work on one of the classic genres of American film. There is an index of names and titles.-A.L. Sampson, Henry T. The Ghost Walks : A Chronological History of Blacks in Show Business, 1865-1910. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1988. 570p. $47.50 (ISBN 0- 8108-2070-6). LC 87-27973. As every librarian working with per- forming arts knows, information about popular entertainers, especially black en- tertainers, is often hard to find. This new work by the author of Blacks in Blackface and Blacks in Black and White fills an enor- mous gap. The author has attempted "to trace the development of black entertain- ment m the United States [from 1865 to 1910]" in the areas of minstrel shows, vaudeville, burlesque, the circus, musical comedy, and, in rare instances, opera (pref.). He has divided the chronology into January 1989 eight chapters, each covering several years. The chapters open with a brief his- tory of black popular entertainment for the years covered. A detailed chronology follows, listing details of American black performers appearing throughout the world, derived from programs, playbills, reviews, and newspaper articles. Many of the reviews and articles are reprinted- some running to several pages-making this more of a documentary history than a straight chronology. There is an index of names and titles mentioned in the chronology. Unfortu- nately, there is no subject index, so the reader cannot find references to a specific type of entertainment or to geographical areas. There is also no list of the many il- lustrations included. But these are minor reservations about an impressive and fas- cinating work.-M.C. ART HISTORY The Index of Paintings Sold in the British Isles during the Nineteenth Century. Volume I, 1801-1805. Edited by Burton B. Fred- ericksen, assisted by Julia I. Armstrong and Doris A. Mendenhall. The Prove- nance Index of the Getty Art History In- formation Program. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1988. 1,047p . $90 (ISBN 0- 87436-524-4 set; ISBN 0-87436-526-0 V.1). LC 88-3369. The first of a projected twenty-volume series indexing the activity of the art mar- ket operating in the British Isles through- out the nineteenth century, this major art reference source began almost ten years ago as a project in the Getty Museum of- fice of Senior Curator for Research Burton Fredericksen. As director of the Prove- nance Index, a computerized database from which this printed volume is de- rived, Fredericksen has brought yet an- other invaluable tool to the field of art his- torical research from the J. Paul Getty Trust's Art History Information Program (AHIP) : By tracing the provenance, or his- tory of ownership of a work of art, re- searchers can learn not only the history of paintings, but also about the history of taste, influences on and by individual art- ists, economic and trade activity, effects of historical events on the art market, and so- cial trends, among other applications. The information for determining provenance is compiled from sales catalogues, which for the period concerned had been chiefly covered, albeit selectively, in Frits Lugt' s Repertoire des Catalogues de Ventes [Guide BE144] (v .4 1901-1925), and Algernon Graves' three-volume Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century (1918-21, repr. 1970). This work, however, greatly expands Lugt' s index, covering in the first volume alone 26,000 transactions for 10,000 to 13,000 paintings. The data are preceded by a historical in- troduction and description of the charac- ter of the London art market in the early 19th century, when the Napoleonic wars necessarily had a profound impact on communication between England and the Continent. A detailed description of the indexes follows, introducing first the in- dex of catalogues, which covers every known sale that included paintings from 1801 to 1805 for which a catalogue has sur- vived. A Lugt number is included to link the catalogue indexed in the earlier source with the contents of the catalogue indexed here. Also listed are the dates of sale, auc- tioneer's name, location of sale, seller's name, source for the name, size of the sale (based on the number of lots), locations of extant sales catalogues (using Lugt' s acro- nyms), annotations, including buyer's name, and other useful comments. The index of paintings, arranged alpha- betically by artist's name (the authority for artists' names being RILA, the Interna- tional Repertory of the Literature of Art [Guide BE60], another Getty AHIP product), comprises the major portion of the book. Each painting by the artist is listed with detailed information on the description and sale of the work. Finally, the index of owners provides references to pictures bought or sold by a given owner. The vast and detailed information pre- sented in this volume and its projected successors, extending coverage to 1900, is derived from computerized databases at the Getty capable of sorting data in fields more numerous than those provided in the printed volume, but omitted to keep Selected Reference Books 89 an already large volume manageable. Ac- cess to this additional data is not yet avail- able commercially. However, in his de- scription of the indexes, Fredericksen states: "We hope that the automated ver- sion will be accessible at some point in the future to a wider public . . . some informa- tion relative to the pictures included in this book does not appear in the printed volume and is available by contacting the compilers at the Provenance Index" (e.g., pictures can be sorted by subject accord- ing to Iconclass classification); likewise, subsequent provenance, if known, is also available upon request. Scheduled at .approximately one vol- ume per year covering five-year periods, the appearance of this index marks a ma- jor event in art history research and scholarship.-B. S.A. Lincoln, Betty Woelk. Festschriften in Art History, 1960-1975: Bibliography and In- dex. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, V.745. New York: Gar- land, 1988. 220p. $40(1SBN0-8240-8497- 7). LC 87-22767. The history of art as an academic disci- pline was born in Germany. So, as its name attests, was the Festschrift. Small wonder if art historians are still among the most faithful cultivators of the Festschrift tradition. ''This volume fills the lacuna between Rave [Kunstgeschichte in Festschriften . .. bis 1960 (Guide BE45)] and RILA [(Guide BE60)] with a bibliography and an- alytical index of Festschriften in art history and related fields in the humanities and social sciences published between 1960-1975" (Pre£.). Lincoln cites and indexes 4,676 essays by 3,099 authors from 344 Festschriften. Most of these volumes were dedicated to art historians, archaeologists, and archi- tectural historians but art-historical contri- butions to Festschriften in related disci- plines (e.g., theology) are also indexed. The first half of the book is devoted to a bibliography of these 344 Festschriften. Entries are arranged alphabetically by the surnames of the dedicatees of the vol- umes, and tables of contents are provided. Three indexes follow. A subject index pro- 90 College & Research Libraries vides access by "persons, places and things" as well as topical subjects. An at- tempt was made to verify proper names against Library of Congress entries; wher- ever possible, names not established by LC were checked against authoritative ref- erence tools. Further indexes offer access by author and-to facilitate use of the bib- liography proper-by dedicatee. Rave, in his bibliography of art- historical Festschriften, provides a key- word-in-context title index; Lincoln does not. That seems eminently reasonable: few Festschriften boast distinctive or memorable titles. Rave also elected to cite selected Festschriften celebrating signifi- cant anniversaries (25th, 50th, 100th) of artists' associations, libraries and muse- ums. Again Lincoln departs from her predecessor's practice, without comment and perhaps inadvisedly. At least she might have attempted to justify her exclu- sion of all but three such volumes. The performance is not flawless. At least once Lincoln was ill-served by catalogers. The festschrift for the great Erwin Panofsky is cited by its subtitle because Lincoln thought its proper title-De artibus opuscula XL-referred to volume 40 of a se- ries rather than to the forty contributors to the volume-an error shared by several RLG institutions, to judge from an RLIN search! Lincoln also missed at least a few important festschriften, e.g., that of ar- chaeologist Anton Moortgat and the sec- ond of the two volumes dedicated to Ru- dolf Wittkower. But these surprising omissions simply underscore the diffi- culty of tracking down this fugitive liter- ary genre. Lincoln's book will make that pursuit significantly easier for the rest of us.-M.M. BLACK STUDIES Images of Blacks in American Culture: A Ref- erence Guide to Information Sources. Jessie Carney Smith ed. New York: Green- wood, 1988. 390p. $49.95 (ISBN 0-313- 24844-3). LC 87-24964. Each chapter of this handbook is written by a specialist and presents a survey and a bibliography of the topic. "American cul- ture" ranges from the musical theater, the film and television industry to toys, January 1989 games, and dolls, children's books, the images of the black female and the black male. Sports are omitted. The last chapter is devoted to collecting black Americana. The surveys are well written, informa- tive, and most are presented by historical period. But it is the bibliography portion which will be of most help in reference li- braries. Some are very extensive, e.g., the bibliography for the chapter on ''Literary criticism and black imagery'' covers criti- cism since 1966 divided by genre includ- ing slave narratives, themes, and then in- dividual authors. The film and television section gives filmographies, and screen credits and studies of black actors and ac- tresses. The "Black Americana resources and collections'' chapter includes a select list of galleries, museums, historical soci- eties, libraries, private collectors, dealers, clubs, shows, etc. Although there are omissions, this vol- ume will prove of great value to any li- brary which has black studies collections and programs.-E.M. BUSINESS Nelson's Directory of Investment Managers. Port Chester, N.Y.: W. R. Nelson, 1988- . Annual. $145 (ISSN 0896- 0143). LC 87-1738. This directory aims to provide pension plan sponsors with a reliable guide to the investment management marketplace. Some 1, 700 money management organi- zations with assets under management of less than $50 million to over $100 billion are profiled with the information within each profile numbered (up to 18) for con- sistency and ease of comparison. This in- formation targets such activities as portfo- lio characteristics, investment philoso- phy, fees, decision making processes, ranges of accounts, cross border invest- ments, mutual fund management, and rates of return. These profiles constitute the directory's first section. The next five sections list the same orga- nizations by state, total assets managed, organization type, area of specialty, and best-performing managers. In the seventh and final section there are profiles of con- sulting firms providing services such as strategic planning, performance monitor- ing, manager screening, actuarial and ad- ministrative, benefits management, and other areas of interest to pension plan sponsors. Data provided on managers were solic- ited directly through a detailed 14-page questionnaire. Information from the com- panies is taken at face value. The pub- lisher maintains and updates its own data- base on such companies and data collection is subjected to rigorous standards.-J.C. SOCIAL SCIENCES Evans, Glen, and Norman L. Farberow. The Encyclopedia of Suicide. New York: Facts On File, 1988. 434p. $40 (ISBN 0- 8160-1397-7). LC 88-11173. Similar in format to The Encyclopedia of Drug Abuse and The Encyclopedia of Alcohol- ism from Facts On File, The Encyclopedia of Suicide provides students and laypersons with an interesting and browsable first source. Mental health professionals and scholars in the field might be able to make use of this book as well, but its usefulness as a tool for the serious researcher is lim- ited. The book begins with a 21-page intro- duction giving a brief history of suicide and tracing the different cultw:al attitudes toward it in various times and places. The main section offers over 500 entries on the causes, history, and psychology of suicide, each varying in length from a few lines to a few pages. The connection be- tween many of the entries and the subject of suicide is sometimes tenuous or diffi- cult to discern. The entry under God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater seems to have been in- cluded because the novel contains a line about the children of suicides; Robert Lowell seems to have gotten his entry be- cause he is known to have once enter- tained suicidal thoughts. Many of the headings, such as the one for Mr. Rosewa- ter, are treated less as a topic to be ad- dressed than as a possible point of depar- ture; this style sometimes makes for interesting reading, but in an encyclope- dia it is more often disorienting. The entry for James Dean is four times longer than that for Elisabeth Kiibler-Ross (five times longer if you count the separate Selected Reference Books 91 entry under Rebel without a Cause). The book emphasizes the popular; indeed, there are so many entries for celebrity or otherwise newsworthy suicides that the book can take on an almost gossipy tone. Cross-referencing is inconsistent. For example, "April suicides," "Stormy Monday," and "Night (darkness), effect on suicide rate," are all "Temporal fac- tors, (time, season, and relation to sui- cide)," but none of them refers to any of the other entries. (The entry under "Weather," curiously enough, doesn't mention anything about weather at all, but it does refer one to "Temporal fac- tors," which is the issue the "Weather" entry actually addresses.) Even more curi- ous are the separate, complete, and only partially redundant entries under "Notes, suicide" and "Suicide notes," neither of which refers to the other. Finally, the indi- vidual entries for the most part do not give sources for further reading or research. Three appendixes follow, the first two of which are statistical. Appendix 1 provides figures and tables on youth suicide in the United States from 1950 to 1980; Appen- dix 2 provides data on suicide in the United States generally, from 1970 to 1980. Both sections rely on government- collected data. Some data on countries other than the United States are given in the main part of the encyclopedia under that country's name. The third appendix lists national and in- ternational associations, institutes, orga- nizations, and government agencies that can provide information on suicide. In- cluded in this section are lists of suicide prevention hotlines and of the major English-language periodicals dealing with the subject. The bibliography which follows mixes works of poetry, fiction, popular psychol- ogy and even general reference titles (e.g., Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts), and combines them with scholarly books and journals on suicide. The result, as with the rest of the book, is often more interesting than use- ful. lndexed.-W.M. HISTORY AND AREA STUDIES Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome. Ed. by Michael Grant 92 College & Research Libraries and Rachel Kitzinger. New York: Scrib- ner, [1988]. 3v. (1,980p.) $195 (ISBN 0- 684-17594-0). LC 87-23465. Beginning students grappling with Plato or mythology, as well as scholars from fields outside the classics, frequently need basic information about classical an- tiquity. The Oxford Classical Dictionary (Guide DA125) is authoritative and con- cise, but sometimes insufficient; Pauly- Wissowa (Guide DA126) can be rather in- timidating to readers without German. The Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean provides an excellent middle ground be- tween these two. It digests recent scholar- ship on familiar topics and introduces new areas of study not addressed in either of the earlier works. Covering the ancient world from 1000 B.C. to the fifth century A.D., these three volumes consist of almost 100 signed es- says by 88 scholars on topics in philoso- phy, religion, history, geography, politi- cal and military science, anthropology, sociology, economics, sciences, arts, and literature. Essays are arranged topically within broad subject areas "in order to bring together ... information which would be scattered in various parts of a work written solely along chronological lines" (Introd.). Thus, the section "Politi- cal and Social Life" includes essays on Greek and Roman education, folklore, athletics, festivals and games, medicine, sex, and prostitution. Though most essays cover only the Greek or Roman period, some (e.g., "Piracy" and "Magic") span the entire ancient world. Each essay is in- tended to stand alone; contributions aver- age about 30 pages in length and include bibliographies of both primary and sec- ondary sources. Civilization of the Ancient World is im- mensely readable; most essays present not only a synthesis of traditional scholar- ship in a particular field, but report recent discoveries and controversies as well. A chronology is included in the first volume. Black-and-white maps, illustrations, and photographs are scattered throughout the text and a series of maps and an excellent index follow at the end of the third vol- ume. Though there is no attempt to stan- dardize the different forms of spelling and January 1989 transliteration of ancient place- and per- sonal names in the text, the index pro- vides cross-references to various forms.- B.J. Echard, William E. Foreign Policy of the French Second Empire, a Bibliography. New York: Greenwood, 1988. 416p. $75 (ISBN 0-313-23799-9). LC 87-37566. Echard has based this secondary bibli- ography on such sources as the Bibliogra- phie annuelle de l'histoire de France (Guide DC155), Historical Abstracts (Guide DA19- 21), and national library catalogs. He does not claim it to be a critical work and frankly states that he has not tried to examine all the items listed. The bibliography covers foreign relations of France and general studies of historical issues where French interest was predominant. Another bibli- ography by the same editor, Select Bibliog- raphy of the French Second Empire, ~ill cover the general history of France in the 1850s and 1860s, and these two bibliographies will supplement the Historical Dictionary of the French Second Empire (New York: Gar- land, 1985). The bibliography includes books, doc- toral dissertations, and journal articles, the latter from some 679 periodicals, pub- lished between the mid-1880s to the mid- 1980s in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. The items are arranged un- der broad subject headings, for example, "England and France," "the Mexican In- tervention," and are indexed under au- thor and subject. The headings in the sub- ject index are, however, rather too broad to be really useful. Since there is no exten- sive critical bibliography for the period, comparable to Les sources de l'histoire de France (Guide DC138), this master list, however uncritical it might be in its con- tents, is a welcome substitute for the task of plowing through various annual bibliographies.-].$. Gardner, J. Anthony. The Iraq-Iran War: A Bibliography. London, New York: Man- sell, [1988]. 124p. $56 (ISBN 0-7201- 1879-4). LC 88-10033. McLachlan, K. S ., and Schofield, Richard N. A Bibliography of the Iran-Iraq Border- land. Outwell, Wisbech, Cam- bridgeshire: Middle East & North Afri- can Studies Pr., [1987]. 383p. MENAS Bibliographies. £26 (ISBN 0-906559-21- 9). LC BG716509. It is always depressing when a war lasts long enough to require a retrospective bib- liography to cover its literature, but these two complementary bibliographies will be welcome additions to libraries serving Middle East scholars. Gardner's work is the more focused of the two, centering on the 1980-1987 con- flict. Its 509 annotated citations are grouped within general s.ections, e.g., background to the war; domestic impact of the war; the conflict in the Gulf and its im- pact; the literature and film of the war. Within each of these sections, there are fur- ther subdivisions: Iraq and Iran at war, 1980-1987, includes sections on the mili- tary and armaments; peace efforts and peace predictions; causes and issues of the outbreak and continuation of the war; legal issues; prisoners and refugees; maps; and drugs. Gardner has emphasized books and journal articles in Western European lan- guages, English, Persian, and Arabic, pub- lished through the end of 1986; some es- says, documents, and document collections are also listed. Newspaper arti- cles or articles from popular magazines have been excluded unless they are inter- views with key figures, or are articles by prominent individuals or recognized scholars in the field; pamphlets and ephemera have likewise been excluded. The introduction to the bibliography is gen- erous with suggestions for current research utilizing computer searches, Persian and Arabic publications, newspapers and translated broadcast reports. The literature and film of the war section includes cita- tions to fiction, poetry, biographies and memoirs, photographic essays, and televi- sion broadcasts and other films. Author and title indexes complete the work. The MEN AS bibliography focuses on lit- erature on disputes over the land bound- ary between Iraq and Iran, including the estuarine frontier zone along the Shatt al- ' Arab, and includes far more historical, geographical, map, and archival literature among its 3,381 unannotated citations. Its initial object was to assemble a small li- Selected Reference Books 93 brary of materials for the use of staff and students of the School of Oriental and M- rican Studies at London University, and involved the University's Middle East Centre and Department of Geography. Its detailed classed format is organized into chapters on geography, geology and geo- morphology, and maps of all varieties with scales indicated; modem history and international relations, including the Gulf war, superpower rivalries in the region, geopolitics and Gulf security, treaties, British government and Colonial Office reports, and bibliographies. Appendixes list materials in the British Public Record Office and in India Office Records. Materi- als included are in English and Western European languages; Persian, Arabic, and Russian are, for the most part, excluded, as are newspaper articles and current af- fairs journals. There is good coverage of essays in collected works, American and British doctoral dissertations, and govern- ment documents. Only author indexing is provided. Both these bibliographies would have been greatly improved by a detailed sub- ject index. There are no cross-references within the text, and with the complicated cross-relationships between foreign and domestic factors, minority groups, and historical periods, users must check many sections to be reasonably sure they have covered their topic. Undergraduates and beginning graduate students will be well served by the Gardner bibliography, but libraries aspiring to complete coverage of a complex historical problem will want to have the MENAS bibliography as well.- D.K.G. Olson, James S. Historical Dictionary of the 1920's. From World War I to the New Deal, 1919-1933. New York: Greenwood, 1988. [421]p. $55 (ISBN 0-313-25683-7). LC 87-20087. A sort of "prequel" to Olson's Historical Dictionary of the New Deal (1985), this dic- tionary should prove useful for quick lookups and brief bibliographies on topics of the twenties in the United States. Whereas the earlier work consisted of signed contributions from many different scholars, the Historical Dictionary of the 94 College & Research Libraries 1920's is entirely the work of Professor Olson. This dictionary consists primarily of brief, alphabetically arranged articles on "the most prominent individuals, social movements, organizations, legislation, treaties, political events, and ideas of the era" (Pre£.). Each entry includes at least one bibliographical reference. A chronol- ogy, detailed index, and an extensive, top- ically arranged bibliography of books and articles on the period complete the vol- ume. Emphasis is on individuals and discrete events rather than broad cultural, politi- cal, or economic trends; there are entries for Louis Armstrong and AI Capone, not jazz or gangsters. However, students should find this dictionary a more com- pact and more complete source for the twenties than the Dictionary of American History (Guide DB146). There are many ar- ticles on individuals and aspects of popu- lar culture, such as Greta Garbo, Rin-Tin- Tin, Lifesavers, confession magazines, Amos and Andy, and Zane Grey. Topics and personages which might be covered by several unrelated articles in the Dictio- nary of American History, e.g., Henry Stim- son, the Stimson Doctrine, are here brought together in one handy entry.- B.J. Researcher's Guide to Archives and Regional History Sources. Ed. John C. Larsen. Hamden, Conn.: Library Professional Publ., 1988. 167p. $27.50 (ISBN 0-20802- 144-2). LC 88-15081. This guide ''provides a background for archival research, identifying basic proce- dures and tools, and suggesting ways in which research can be undertaken effi- ciently'' (Pre£.). As such, it is an informa- tive companion to certain other hand- books of historical method such as The Modern Researcher (Guide DA4) and acts as an update of Philip Brooks' Research in Ar- chives (Guide DB12). Aimed at the beginning student, this Re- searcher's Guide consists of a series of topi- cal essays on various aspects of archival research by archivists and librarians from across the country. Subjects include a gen- eral introduction to the use of archival sources, ethics and archives, reference January 1989 tools, business and religious records, oral histories, genealogical sources, and public records and governmental sources. Many bibliographical references are scattered throughout the text; "Notes and Bibliog- raphies" for each chapter appear at the ' end of the volume. There is some duplica- tion of coverage: a basic introduction to the nature of research in archives is in- cluded in at least three different places. Some topics, such as the chapter on pres- ervation, seem out of place in a handbook intended for a general audience. Novice researchers will find much of this guide informative and interesting, though they may have to look elsewhere in order to identify materials in archives and manuscript collections that are perti- nent to their research.-B.f. SCIENCES Durbin, Paul T. Dictionary of Concepts in the Philosophy of Science. Reference Sources for the Social Sciences and Human- ities, 6. New York: Greenwood, [1988]. 362p. $59.95 (ISBN 0-313-22979-1). LC 87-32293. This new dictionary is ''a summary of approximately one hundred basic contro- versies (or would-be controversies) cover- ing all the subfields in contemporary phi- losophy of science" (lntro.). It is oriented to upper-level undergraduates and gradu- ate students who are beginning study in the philosophy of science, and is designed as a supplement to a textbook or introduc- tory survey of the field. Originally planned to cover concepts in the history as well as the philosophy of science, its scope was curtailed by the publication of the Dic- tionary of the History of Science (Guide EA217), to which it forms a good compan- ion volume. Each of the two- to four-page articles be- gins with a brief definition of the term de- lineating the variety of usages, followed by an essay describing the history of the term and examining the contemporary points of view on the issue. The articles conclude with a substantial list of refer- ences and sources of additional informa- tion. The bibliographic lists are probably the most valuable aspect of this carefully done work. "Great care has been taken to make the bibliographies both historically representative . . . and genuinely helpful to beginning students." The "Sources of additional information" section is a one- paragraph bibliographic essay which leads the reader to basic materials in the field with special attention given to impor- tant articles in the major encyclopedias. All works referred to in these lists are in English. The definitions and articles them- selves are quite useful descriptions of the terms. While working in a field that is nor- mally laden with jargon, the author has made a good effort at avoiding unex- plained technical terms. Good cross- references are provided throughout this work.-K.M. NEW EDITIONS, SUPPLEMENTS, ETC. For the much expanded 13th edition, The Reader's Advisor (12th ed. Guide AA443) has just published v .4, The best in the literature of philosophy and world re- ligions, ed. William L. Ruse (New York: Bowker, 1988. 801p. $75). A. Robert Rog- ers' The Humanities: A Selective Guide to In- formation Sources (1979 Guide note, p. 329) is revised and updated in a third edition by Ron Blazek and Elizabeth Aversa (Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1988. 382p. $36). One major change is the incorporation of a section to present on- line databases within the discussion of a discipline. Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory 1988-89 is the 27th edition (New York: Bowker, 1988. 3v. $280; Guide AE10). It now incorporates Irregular Serials and An- nuals (Guide AE7). Other new features: main page numbers in the title index are in boldface, the cessations index covers three years instead of one, new serials begin- ning during the last three years are spe- cially marked as are periodicals which are full-text online. British Newspapers and Periodicals 1641-1700: A Short-Title Catalogue of Serials Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, and British America, compiled by Carolyn Nel- son and Matthew Seccombe (New York: Modern Language Association, 1987. 724p. $250), is a companion to Wing STC (Guide AA819) listing every issue of a se- rial with date, number, and locations. Selected Reference Books 95 Beautifully indexed by editor, publisher- printer, subject, language, month and year, and cities other than London. Newsletters in Print, formerly Newsletters Directory, formerly National Directory of Newsletters and Reporting Services (Guide AF30) has published a 4th edition (Detroit: Gale, 1988. 4v. 1,397p. $165) which ex- pands coverage some 20 percent. Already Gale is announcing a softcover supple- ment for April1989 ($80). Researchers now using the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (Guide DB64) have an Index to Personal Names ... (ed. Harriet Ostroff, Alexan- dria, Va.: ChadwY'ck-Healey, [1988]. 2v. $450?). Even though three volumes have been announced, only two volumes have been published. All personal and family names are brought together in one alpha- bet with the NUC-MC number. Those numbers in italics are descriptions of ma- jor collections. William and Mary Morris have not changed the words and definitions from the first edition of Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins (Guide AD43) but have added many new words for the second edition (New York: Harper & Row, [1988]. 669p. $25). Le petit Robert 2: dictionnaire universe/ de noms propres alphabetique et ana- logique (ed. Alain Rey) (Guide AK185) is in a "nouvelle edition" (Paris: Le Robert, [1988], 1,952p.) with many articles, tables, etc., updated to 1986-87. The Dizionario patristico e di antichita cris- tiane (Guide BB310) is complete with the publication of v.3, Atlante patristico (Ca- sale Monferrato: Marietti, 1988. 417p.) supplying an index, chronology, and plates of illustrations for the first two vol- umes. 'Who:s Who in U.S. Writers, Editors and Po- ets: A Biographical Directory (Highland Park, TIL: December Pr., 1988. 671p.) is now in. a second edition with entries for ''about 8500 poets, novelists, short story writers, editors of journals and books, nonfiction writers, translators, critics, playwrights, scriptwriters, and biogra- phers" (Pre£.). This represents an increase of some 1,500 entries over the 1987 edition (651p.). The Dictionary of Literary Biography pub- lished by Gale (Guide BD416) continues to 96 College & Research Libraries grow with some very interesting addi- tions, many covering foreign authors: v.68, Canadian Writers, 1920-1959, ed. W. H. New (417p. $95); v.69, Contempo- rary German Fiction Writers, ed. Wolfgang D. Elfe and James Hardin ( 413p. $95); v.70, British Mystery Writers, 1860-1919, ed. Bernard Binstock and Thomas F. Staley (389p. $95); v. 71, Amer- ican Literary Critics and Schol~rs·, 1880-1900, ed. John W. Rathbun and M. Grecu (374p. $95); v. 72, French Novelists 1930-1960, ed. Catharine Savage Brosman (478p. $95); v. 73, American Magazine Journalists, 1741-1850, ed. Sam G. Riley (430p. $95); v. 75, Contemporary German Fiction Writers, second series (367p. $95); v. 76, Afro-American Writers, 1940-1955, ed. Trudier Harris (389p. $95). All of these volumes have cumulative indexes to the whole series as well as to the Yearbook and the Documentary Series. Jefferson D. Caskey has compiled an In- dex to Poetry in Popular Periodicals 1960-1964 (New York: Greenwood, [1988]. 232p. $49. 95) which is a companion volume to his coverage for 1955-59. The volume indexes periodicals included in the Readers' Guide, though for this period the index did not cover poetry. Ottemiller' s Index to Plays in Collections (Guide BD215) is in a seventh edition (Me- tuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1988. 564p. $42.50), revised and enlarged by Billie M. Connor and Helene G. Mochedlover. The coverage is extended teri ·years to 1985, adding 251 new anthologies. Lyman Tower Sargent has also added ten years to the coverage of his bibliogra- phy, British and American Utopian Litera- ture, 1516-1985: An Annotated Chronologi- cal Bibliography (New York: Garland, 1988. 559p. $75; 1st ed., 1979, Guide.BD-62-3}..--Th€ volume now is an extensive listing of works of utopian literature; the frustrating part is that the section of secondary works has been dropped necessitating both vol- umes on the shelf. A fourth edition of Handel's National Di- rectory for the Performing Arts (Dallas: NDPA, [1988]. 2v.) continues in part the National Directory for the Performing Arts and Civic Centers, updating and adding new entries for organizations, facilities, January 1989 and institutions offering courses in dance, instrumental and vocal music, theater and the performing arts. Volume 5 of the Inter- national Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers (Chicago: St. James Pr., [1987]. 494p. $55) is a title index to the films included in v .1-4 of the series and includes cross- references for alternative English-lan- guage titles. In order to ''reduce the number of pages . . . and thereby hold down the purchase price" (p.iv) the Census Catalog and Guide 1988 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1988. 396p. $19; Guide CG101) "omitted prod- ucts from the 1977 economic and govern- ment censuses and 1978 agriculture cen- suses [as well as] several of the Factfinders from Appendix D." Otherwise this edi- tion is cumulative for 1980-1987. America at the Polls 2: A Handbook of Amer- ican Presidential Election Statistics 1968-1984, compiled by Richard M. Scam- mon and Alice V. McGillivray (Washing- ton, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1988. 594p. $60), is a companion to America at the Polls ... 1920-1964 (Guide CJ165). It ex- tends coverage at the national, state, and county levels and adds presidential pref- erence primaries, 1968-84. The Dictionary of Medieval Knighthood and Chivalry: People, Places and Events, com .. piled by Bradford B. Broughton (New York: Greenwood, 1988. 774p. $55), is a companion to his earlier Concepts and Terms (1986. 597p.). Together they present the development and growth of chivalry and knighthood. One omission from earlier columns is the mention of v.46: Zemstvo agricultural policy-Zyriane (1987. 246p.) of the Mod- ern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet His- tory (Guide DC571). Besides completing the alphabet there is a supplement cover- ing'' Abakam'' to'' Archives in the Soviet Union.'' This supplementary section cov- ers entries omitted from the first alphabet, entries for important Soviet figures who have died recently, articles on the most important cities and towns in Russia and the Soviet Union. 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