College and Research Libraries Selected Reference Books of 1988-89 Eileen Mcilvaine II 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. 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 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 (10th ed., Chicago: American Library Assn., 1986). BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES Biographisches Lexikon zur Weimarere Re- publik. Ed. by Wolfgang Benz and Her- mann Grame. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1988. 392p. DM 58 (ISBN 3-406-32988- 8). LC 88-163231. This dictionary contains brief (one- or two-column) biographies of some 500 in- dividuals active in Germany and Austria during the Weimar Republic. Cultural, in- tellectual, and financial as well as political figures are covered. Thus the reader can find Fritz Lang, Rilke, Krupp, and Freud along with Stresemann and Hitler. The entries conclude with brief bibliographies listing the subject's major works, where appropriate; selected secondary sources; and, if available, locations of personal ar- chives. Most of this information, of course, can be found in other sources, but this one-volume compilation is a useful guide to the personalities of this important period. A list of ministers in each German gov- ernment from 1919 through Hitler's 1933 cabinet and a chronology of German polit- ical events from 1918 to 1933 are also included.-M. C. GRANTS Directory of International Corporate Giving in America. Ed. by Katherine E. Jankowski, et. al. Washington, D.C.: The Taft Group, 1989. LC sn89-25454. A welcome new addition to the informa- tion sources available to fund-raisers and scholars in search of grant support is this guide to the charitable giving of more than 300 internationally owned American com- panies. While an extensive literature has long been available on the philanthropy of American-based foundations and corpo- rations, there has been little to date on the activities of foreign corporations, a grow- ing new force on the grant scene as a result of the dramatic shifts in the international economic balance that have taken place in recent years. This new directory, pro- duced by the Taft Group, publisher of Eileen Mcilvaine is Head of Reference, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027. Al- though it appears under a byline, this column is a project of the reference departments of Columbia University Libraries, and notes are signed with the initials of these individual staff members: Mary Cargill, Beth ]uhl, Anita Lowry, Kirk Moll, Robert H. Scott, Sarah Spurgin, ]unko Stuveras (Butler Library); Diane Goon and Carrie B. Robinson (Lehman Library); Katherine A. Keller and Barbara Sykes-Austin (Avery Library); ]ames Coen and Diana Sheffield (Business); and Mary Kay and Kathleen M. Kehoe (Science Libraries). 557 558 College & Research Libraries other guides to American corporate giv- ing, is an important first step toward fill- ing that gap. The book contains brief profiles of the American giving programs of 245 interna- tional corporations operating in this coun- try. Brief data about the headquarters, af- filiations, products, size, and revenues of the company is followed by the name and address of the individual to contact about giving programs, information about total giving, the size of the average grant, types of support, geographical preference (if any), giving guidelines, typical grant re- cipients, leading corporate officers and contributions program officers, applica- tion procedures, and other relevant facts, and examples of recent grants. An appen- dix lists basic information on an additional sixty corporations that have given support to nonprofit organizations in this country but declined to provide more information about their giving program for this direc- tory. Finally, a series of indexes provides a key to companies by headquarters state, operating locations, grant type, non- monetary support type, recipient type, major products/industry, foreign parent company, and foreign parent country, corporate officers by name, and grant re- cipients by state. The noteworthy aspect of the guide is the insight it provides into Japanese cor- porate giving, a phenomenon heretofore only sketchily described in English- language literature, but increasingly inter- esting as Japan's economy moves toward world preeminence. Here, the activities of some 56 Japanese corporate affiliates in this country are touched upon. (For the equally little-known world of Japanese foundation activity, see the brief survey in Japan Council for International Exchange, Japanese Philanthropy and International Co- operation {Tokyo: JCIE, 1985) ). Thanks to its unique coverage of a new and little-known field, the Directory of In- ternational Corporate Giving in America should be an essential addition to any seri- ous collection of guides to corporate and foundation philanthropy.-R.H.S. RELIGION Crumb, Lawrence N. The Oxford Movement September 1989 and Its Leaders: A Bibliography of Second- ary and Lesser Primary Sources. ATLA Bibliography Series, no.24. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow; and London: Ameri- can Theological Library Association, 1988. 706p. with 3 separate pages of cor- rections and additions. $62.50 (ISBN 0810821419). LC 88-10217. Lawrence Crumb, with this massive bib- liography on the Oxford Movement, has produced a valuable resource detailing the critical literature on one of the most signif- icant developments in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christianity. It is an im- portant addition to the American Theolog- ical Library Association's ATLA Bibliogra- phy Series, which has provided the scholarly community with a wide variety of bibliographies on religious topics. It principally covers materials relating to the early period of the Oxford Movement, 1833-1850, and to its leaders, especially John Keble, Edward Pusey, and John Henry Newman. In the case of Newman (who has a very extensive bibliography) materials are restricted to those dealing with the Anglican period of his life, those ''dealing with aspects of his life that were especially important in his Oxford pe- riod,'' ''general studies by recognized An- glican authors," (Pref.) and bibliographic studies. Works by the three leaders pub- lished during their lifetimes are excluded, but major posthumous editions are in- cluded along with all translations. Appen- dix Two lists texts, translations, and sec- ondary works on Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua. The over 5,400 entries are arranged by year of publication; within each year's sec- tion the items are divided into three se- quences: books, chapters of books or arti- cles in encyclopedias, and periodical articles. Materials in all formats are listed, including dissertations, manuscripts, and microforms. The bibliography has sepa- rate indexes by author (including titles of edited works), periodical title, and sub- ject. The subject index is quite detailed (p.559-706) yet still it suffers from the common problem of bibliographies of this type: there are many subject entries fol- lowed only by dozens of entry numbers. This necessitates constant movement back and forth between the index and text. While lacking formal annotations, the en- tries frequently include brief notes that clarify the purpose of the work or provide cross-references with other items in the bibliography (e.g., "reply to no. 464," "rev. of nos. 403, 1016").-K.M. Foundation for Advanced Biblical Stud- ies. FABS Reference Bible. Defuniak Springs, Fla.: FABS International, 1988. $795. A nonbibliographic CD-ROM available from the Foundation for Advanced Bibli- cal Studies, FABS Reference Bible (FRB) fea- tures five different databases containing several translations of the Bible into En- glish and other modem languages; origi- nal Hebrew, Greek, and Latin texts of the Old and New Testaments and Apocry- pha; grammatically and syntactically ana- lyzed versions of the Greek and Hebrew texts; Greek and Hebrew lexicons; har- monies of the Gospels and historical books of the Old Testament; The Dictio- nary of the Bible and Religion (Nashville: Abingdon, 1986); an English translation of the works of Josephus, and Lightfoot's collection of works of the early church Fa- thers. This collection of texts provides a rich set of tools for biblical study on a single disc, permitting close and comprehensive examination of the original texts, their grammatical structure, and interpretation in a variety of translations along with a va- riety of lexical, explanatory, and supple- mentary textual materials. It uses the same FindiT software as REX (see below), and that program's capacity for moving within as well as between texts retrieved by a search is even more useful here. However, learning to use FindiT effec- tively with FRB is even more difficult than it is in the case of REX: this is clearly not a tool for the casual user. Particularly diffi- cult and even unsettling at first are the special Greek and Hebrew transliteration systems employed and the complex sys- tem of symbols used for the grammatical analysis. The reference Bible is, also, by the frank admission of its creators, still partly in a state of development, and its overall quality is therefore far from even. F ABS International plans to remove cer- tain ''less used'' portions of the database Selected Reference Books of 198S....89 559 in a new, revised edition now in prepara- tion. One can only hope that this measure will not affect the more scholarly materials assembled here, as FRB is a fascinating ex- ample of the potential of the optical-disc medium and provides seemingly unique coverage in its field. It is worthy of serious consideration as an addition to the collec- tion of any institution where serious Bibli- cal research is conducted.-R.H.S. Foundation for Advanced Biblical Stud- ies. REX (Religious Index). Defuniak Springs, Fla.: FABS International, 1988- . $895; annual subscription $695. An interesting new arrival on the optical disc scene, REX until recently offered vir- tually the only indexing in this medium for periodicals on religion. It is a CD-ROM version of Religious and Theological Ab- stracts (Guide BB43), a publication provid- ing citations and brief abstracts of articles in 200 or so serials, with strongest cover- age in the fields of Christianity and Juda- ism. A subscription provides one new op- tical disc each year plus four quarterly updates (which can, however, be searched only as text files on a microcom- puter hard disk). Designed for use on IBM XT, AT, or compatible models and a variety of compact-disc players, REX is rather easy to install, but its FindiT software is more difficult to learn at first than is that of most other well-known CD-ROM indexes. Us- ers are presented with a list of indexing terms, and, by use of the directional, back- space, escape, page-up, page-down, and enter keys (as well as by direct input of a desired word), can move throughout the list, selecting individual terms to search or combining them in Boolean statements. The process suffers from certain limita- tions, however, notably an inability to nest terms in every possible way and a lack of truncation capacity and proximity operators. (It should be noted, though, that Boolean searches are not easy to per- form on some other popular CD-ROMs ei- ther.) Searching is basically by key word, resulting in a fairly low degree of preci- sion; subject searching is theoretically possible, but is limited to the broad divi- sional and subject headings used to group 560 College & Research Libraries entries in the printed index and requires a good knowledge of those terms. The searching process itself is extremely rapid, the number of records found being displayed almost instantly on the lower right-hand corner of the screen. Users .. , then have the option of viewing either a short-title list or individual abstracts one by one. One can move not only up and down the list of found items, but also up and down the parts of the index adjacent to those items, a valuable feature, since ar- ticles are grouped in the index under the aforementioned subject headings. Se- lected records may then either be sent to the printer or downloaded to a disk file. On the negative side, one must note the absence of any tutorial program, fairly ge- neric documentation, a noticeable number of typographical errors, and less than comprehensive coverage of many subject areas and issues. The recent appearance of the larger Religion Index in CD-ROM repre- sents a serious challenge to REX's monop- oly status in the field, and the latter's pro- ducers are now expanding the number of journals abstracted in order to provide comparable coverage; it is reported that an additional 75 periodicals will be included in the new version of the disk produced this August. It remains to be seen, more- over, whether the new Religion Index will match REX's retrospective coverage, and REX's provision of abstracting and faster searching speed will continue to be factors to consider.-R.H.S. LITERATURE Hebel, Udo J. Intertextuality, Allusion, and Quotation: An International Bibliography of Critical Studies. Bibliographies and In- dexes in World Literature, v.18. New York: Greenwood, [1989]. 175p. $39.95 (ISBN 0-313-26517-8). LC 88-38862. This bibliography serves as a welcome guide to the burgeoning literature of "in- tertextuality," a relatively new but al- ready widespread and influential critical and theoretical concept. In his Preface and Introduction Hebel discusses the develop- ment of intertextuality as a critical con- struct providing new ways of understand- ing .the relations between library texts and September 1989 the presence of one text in another; inter- textuality also encompasses and rejuve- nates such traditional areas of study as al- lusion and quotation. The Introduction consists of a nineteen-page bibliographic essay identifying major currents and sem- inal works in the scholarship of intertex- tuality, allusion, and quotation. The bibliography itself includes over 2,000 citations to articles, books, and dis- sertations in English and Western Euro- pean languages published through the end of 1986 (a few important studies pub- lished since 1986 are cited in the Introduc- tion). The Index to Writers and Anony- mous Texts enables the user of the bibliography to locate studies focusing on intertextuality, allusion, or quotation in a particular author or work. The Subject In- dex is a guide to studies of more general topics, such as the "motif of books in books," or on particular genres like po- etry, or on other arts, including music and film.-A.L. Kasack, Wolfgang. Dictionary of Russian Literature Since 1917. Translated by Ma- ria Carlson and JaneT. Hedges. Biblio- graphic Revision by Rebecca Atack. New York: Columbia Univ. Pr., 1988. 502p. $40 (ISBN 0-231-052421). LC 87- 20838. This work is an expanded English- language version of a dictionary first pub- lished in German in 1976 and its Supple- ment 1986 (Lexikon der russischen literatur). Besides updating articles it also adds some 150 new ones. In 619 author and 87 subject entries, it offers a general overview of the field of Russian literature, both Soviet and emigre, since the revolutionary year of 1917. As the author indicates, the first edi- tion of his work was motivated by the lack of any comprehensive Western handbook on the subject, particularly crucial in light of the biases of the eight-volume Soviet Kratkaia literaturnaia entsiklopediia (Guide BD1356). Kasack goes far toward redress- ing the imbalance, providing coverage of successive generations of emigre writers as well as of dissident or officially forgot- ten figures within the Soviet Union, while providing treatment of major and a host of minor Soviet authors as well. Also some- what unique and interesting is the hand- book's treatment of the system of such topics as official literary prizes, the con- gresses of the Writer's Union, and the leading Soviet literary periodicals. The dictionary provides no real coverage of lit- erary critics or scholars, nor-with a few exceptions-of non-Russian Soviet writ- ers. The latter omission, while under- standable in terms of the need to set some limits, seems particularly regrettable, both because of the broad publication of the works of many non-Russian writers in Russian, and because of the fact that they are not likely to be covered in any other single-volume reference work of this type. Since the appearance of the German edition, two other important English- language reference works of comparable scope have appeared: A Handbook of Rus- sian Literature, edited by Victor Terras, (Guide BD1355) and the first eight volumes of The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature, edited by Harry B. Weber (Guide BD1358). In Kasack's words, how- ever, both publications ''containconsider- ably fewer authors from the period cov- ered by this dictionary." A sample comparison of coverage of the letter ''B'' in fact reveals his Dictionary includes about two-and-a-half times as many refer- ences to post-Revolutionary writers as Terras' s excellent but much broader Hand- book. However, less than one-third of Ka- sack' s fifty-five "B" entires were lacking in Weber's Encyclopedia, and the latter's "B" section included another thirty-five articles on Soviet Russian authors not mentioned in the Dictionary, along with about ninety entries on Soviet Ukrainian, Byelorussian, and other non-Russian writers. To be sure, the Encyclopedia is only about one-third complete, and has taken about ten years to reach this point. More- over, Kasack's entries on the secondary figures are generally fuller and more in- sightful than those in the Encyclopedia, which often appear to be little more than translations of original Soviet encyclope- dia sources. In the case of the major fig- ures and literary movements, however, both the Encyclopedia and the Handbook tend to provide much lengthier treatment Selected Reference Books of 1988-89 561 than Kasack' s admittedly well-composed essays. There appears to be little overlap in the brief bibliographies provided at the end of the articles in all three of the aforemen- tioned works, permitting them to serve as a valuable complement to one another in this respect, as well as others. For its com- pactness, comprehensiveness, and spe- cial focus on the Soviet period, however, it is clear that Kasack' s work is the single one most suited to provide ready refer- ·ence to the broad and complex field of Russian literature during the seven dec- ades of Soviet rule.-R.H.S. A Bibliographical Guide to Spanish-American Literature: Twentieth-Century Sources. Comp. by Walter Rela. Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature, v.13. New York: Greenwood, 1988. 381p. $49.95 (ISBN 0313258619). LC 88-15443. This annotated bibliography lists se- lected works published or reprinted since 1945 on the literatures of fourteen Spanish American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Do- minican Republica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela), from the colonial times to the present. The work is divided into four major parts: bibliographies, dictionaries, history and criticism, and anthologies. Under each category, the materials are arranged by genre within a country section: poetry, prose, fiction, drama, and essay. The bib- liography provides a name index, which includes both authors as subjects and au- thors of cited work, but there is no topical or geographical index. It would be hard to retrieve any studies by theme, regardless of the country of origin or across genres. The very traditional arrangement by coun- try, genre, and format of publication limits the usefulness of the bibliography. The section on Anthologies occupies over one-third of the bibliography, listing collections in Spanish and English. Notes often indicate which authors are included in an anthology and the names are in- dexed in the Author Index. In other parts of the Bibliography, the contents of the pro- ceedings of a congress is similarly ana- 562 College & Research Libraries lyzed and indexed by author. This feature should be useful for identifying confer- ence papers and short stories in anthologies.-].S. ENGLISH LITERATURE Ringler, William A., Jr. Bibliography and In- dex of English Verse Printed 1476-1558. London: Mansell, 1988. 440p. $160 (ISBN 0-7201-1892-1). LC 88-8517. This is the first installment of a project to extend Brown and Robbins's Index of Mid- dle English Verse (Guide BD637) through the Tudor period. Later volumes have been planned to extend the index of printed verse through 1700, and to pro- vide indexes and bibliographies of manu- script texts. Because the compiler died while this volume was in production, it is hoped that these projected volumes may also reach publication. This volume is organized into two main sections: verse printed 1476-1500, and verse printed 1501-1558. Each of these sections includes a bibliography and a first line index. Entries in the bibliographies include the main entry and STC number, author and title exactly as they appear on the title page, headings or colophons, place of publication, library copy used, reprints and facsimiles, number of poems in the volume and complete number of lines, and a cross-reference to the first-line in- dex. Entries in the first-line indexes include authors, titles, and dates of attribution, dates of composition, total number of lines, verse forms, STC numbers of edi- tions containing the poem, inclusive dates of editions, signatures or folios on which the poem appears in the first edition, and genre and subject classifications. The subject and author indexes at the back of the volume include lists of verse by refrain, verse form, English poet, trans- lated author, literary form and genre, title, historical person and event, and religion. This volume represents a tremendous contribution to English literary scholar- ship; readers will now be able to locate the verse of many of these authors in minutes rather than years. It is recommended to all September 1989 libraries with strong collections in English literature.-S. S. Schlueter, Paul. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland Reference Li- brary in the Humanities, v.818. New York: Garland, 1988. 516p. $75 (ISBN 0824084497). LC 88-21393. This bio-bibliography provides entries for 370 British women writing from the Middle Ages to the present. English, Scots, Welsh, and Irish authors are in- cluded, as well as those from Common- wealth countries who have lived a signifi- cant portion of their lives in Great Britain. The format is based on that of American Women Writers (Guide BD412). Signed en- tries provide basic biographical facts, an essay ranging from one to two pages, a list of works, a brief bibliography of second- ary materials, and a list of reference books (e.g., DNB, CA, DLB) where additional information may be found. The essays are well written, and the bibliographies of sec- ondary materials list many recent works, though citations to articles give only the journal title and year. The Index includes names and pseudonyms, professions of writers, subjects treated in the works, and literary forms and genres. There are no chronological or geographical indexes. Although it is possible to find much of this information in a variety of other sources, An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers brings essential information about these writers together in a single, informa- tive volume. Recommended for libraries of all sizes.-S.S. Spector, Robert Donald. Backgrounds to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century En- glish Literature: An Annotated Bibliograph- ical Guide to Modern Scholarship. Bibliog- raphies and Indexes in World Literature, v.17. New York: Green- wood, 1989. 553p. $59.95 (ISBN 0-313- 24098-1). LC 88-32807. Intended as a guide for the student of eighteenth-century literature, this bibliog- raphy is broadly interdisciplinary in its coverage of the political, economic, social, and cultural history of Britain during the eighteenth century. Thus it is of interest to students and scholars not only of litera- Selected Reference Books of 1988-89 563 ture, but also of history and related disci- plines. It includes books and articles in En- glish that constitute "significant scholarship that will be interesting for · both the specialist and serious student'' (p.viii). The annotations are descriptive and, in some cases, evaluative. The bibliography is arranged according to general disciplinary or topical catego- . ries: bibliographies; publishing, printing, and journalism; history and politics; reli- gion; philosophy; science, medicine, and technology; economics; crime and the law; society, manners, customs, and atti- tudes; education and scholarship; lan- guage and rhetoric; literature and the arts. Some categories have topical subcatego- ries. Because there is no subject index, us- ers looking for references on a narrower subject will have to scan through the ap- propriate section(s). There is, however, an author index.-A.L. DRAMA Peterson, Bernard L. Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays: A Biographical Directory and Dramatic Index. New York: Greenwood, 1988. 62Sp. $75 (ISBN 0-313-25190-8). LC 87-17814. This is a directory of approximately 700 black American dramatists (including ra- dio and television screenwriters) who have been writing since 1950. The author has included all available biographical in- formation, verified whenever possible with the playwrights themselves; a com- plete list of plays and/or scripts with brief plot summaries and production histories; and bibliographic information for pub- lished works. Among the useful appendixes is a list of unpublished plays, arranged by author, located in the Schomberg Collection of the New York Public Library and other reposi- tories. The author also lists anthologies which include one or more plays by black playwrights, a useful updating of a similar list in James Hatch's Black Playwrights, 1823-1977 (Guide BD482); a list of refer- ence and critical sources; and a list of dis- sertations on contemporary black Ameri- can theater. There is an index by play title, including those listed in the appendixes, and a general index. Despite its cost, any public or academic library needing sources on black writers or contemporary theater will welcome this book.-M.C. ART AND ARCHITECTURE Bibliography of American Folk Art for theY ear 1987. New York: Museum of American Folk Art, [1989]. 32p. Eugene Sheehy and Rita Keckiessen, distinguished compilers of the Guide to Reference Books, have turned their atten- tion to another area, one poorly covered by bibliographies. Sponsored and pro- duced by the Museum of American Folk Art in New York, the Bibliography of Ameri- can Folk Art is based upon their library. It limits itself to the North American area north of Mexico and includes books, pam- phlets, and exhibition and auction cata- logs published in 1987. The arrangement is topical with general headings listed first, e.g., folk art of ethnic groups, fol- lowed by genres, e.g., gravestones and cemeteries or naive/non-traditional art. The volume concludes with a good au- thor, title, and subject index. We look for- ward to the next volume.-E.M. Diamonstein, Bar bar alee. The Landmarks of New York. New York: Abrams, 1988. 416p. $45 (ISBN 0-8109-1270-8). LC 88- 3317. What makes a ''landmark'' a landmark? The twelve-page introduction to this book provides the definition according to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The history and composi- tion of the commission and the designa- tion process are also included. As the title suggests, this work includes all landmarked structures in New York City as the end of January 1988. The build- ings are arranged in order by date and each entry includes black-and-white pho- tographs, dates, address, name of archi- tect (where known) and the date of desig- nation. The entries themselves vary in the type and quality of material presented. The text was based in part on the designation re- 564 College & Research Libraries ports of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Anecdotal and historical material was solicited from property own- ers, city officials, historical societies, archi- tects, preservationists, and citizens. An entry provides a brief indication of the his- tory and significance of each designated property. Included at the end of this volume is a section on historic districts of New York. Each district includes a map and the date of designation. Content is similar to that found for individual structures. A list of scenic and interior landmarks follows which only includes the building name. A section entitled, "Sites Heard by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Com- mission But Not Designated 1982-January 1988," includes building name, address, and date of hearing. Landmarks and his- toric districts that were designated be- tween February 1 and July 12, 1988 are marked with an asterisk. Finally, an index lists landmarks and includes categorical entries, i.e., apartment houses, bridges, and churches. This work updates the 1979 pamphlet, A Guide to New York City Landmarks, pub- lished by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. While Land- marks of New York provides an important resource as an index and photographic guide, it lacks a bibliography and the land- mark designation report numbers. These two elements would greatly enhance the use of this work for research purposes.- K.A.K. Index to Historic Preservation Periodicals. General editor, Hye Yun Choe. Na- tional Trust for Historic Preservation Li- brary of the University of Maryland, College Park. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988. 354p. $95 (ISBN 0-8161-0474-3). Const11fction Index. Chicago: ArchiText, 1987- . Quarterly. $75 1989 subscrip- tion; $50/ea. 1987 and 1988 annual com- pilations (ISSN 0892-2047). Australian Architectural Periodicals Index: AAPI. Compiled by the staff of the Ref- erence Dept., Stanton Library. North Sydney, NSW Australia: Stanton Li- brary, 1986- . Microfiche. (ISSN 0817- 2684). September 1989 Three periodical indexes for consider- ation in architecture collections have re- cently been published. Each concentrates on a very specific segment of the literature already covered by the more comprehen- sive Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (Guide BE253) and the Architectural Periodi- cals Index, published by the Royal Institute of British Architects (BE257), but includes some journal titles or document types out- side their scope. The Index to Historic Preservation Periodi- cals, produced by the staff of the National Trust for Historic Preservation Library, now at the University of Maryland at Col- lege Park, is a compilation of periodical ar- ticles from approximately 325 popular and scholarly serials and historic preservation organization publications, as well as pam- phlets, newspaper clippings, and bro- chures treating all aspects of historic pres- ervation. "The result has been a unique current-awareness tool for preservation- ists and a finding aid to the periodical anq vertical file collections of the National Trust Library'' (Introd.). The present volume, covering the pe- riod from 1979 to 1987, contains over 6,000 entries of merged catalog cards covering topics in architecture, law, historical re- search, design review, interior treatments for historic buildings, restoration, real es- tate, fund-raising, statewide historic pres- ervation programs and federal policy. Ac- cess is by subject only, with a single subject heading assigned to each citation. Multiple searches are therefore necessary in order to research a topic adequately. The library staff continues to collect and index material for dissemination to Na- tional Trust members and staff. Requests for this updated information can be ob- tained by mail or telephone from the Na- tional Trust Library. For technical architectural literature the Construction Index covers 33 English- language journals selected by the editor for their potential usefulness to practicing professionals, with emphasis on building design and construction. Arrangement of the contents is organized by a 5-digit nu- merical classification structure based on the CSI Masterformat-Master List of Sec- tion Titles and Numbers, published by the Construction Specifications Institute, a system also used for product and materi- als classification in Sweet's Catalog File, and therefore familiar to most practitioners. Access is consequently by broad subject category, such as safety and protection, building types, concrete, doors and win- dows, electrical, handicapped construc- tion, etc. Articles are annotated and ar- ranged within each section alphabetically by journal title. Issued quarterly, the fourth-quarter issue is cumulative for the year. Photocopies of articles from approxi- mately three-quarters of the journals in- dexed are available from the publisher, ArchiText. Finally, the architecture of a single re- gion is covered in-depth by the Australian Architectural Periodicals Index "in response to a need for effective access to Australian and New Zealand architecture journals .. . . Emphasis is on architecture and build- ing in Australia and New Zealand, but overseas projects, designs, etc., have been included, where there has been some de- mand" (lntrod.). The index is a product of the reference department of the Stanton Library, which began developing a handwritten card file in 1976. Now available on microfiche, the AAPI evolved from an early finding list into an index of 20,000 entries covering pe- riodical articles from 45 journals for the pe- riod from 1910 to 1983. Subjects include architecture and other aspects of the built environment, conservation and restora- tion, landscape architecture, and plan- ning. Biographical information, particu- larly for early twentieth-century architects, can be found under architect or firm name; otherwise access is by building type or general subject heading, with spe- cific building names used "very occasion- ally, if the subject has been popular.'' There is no name authority, so all varia- tions of individual or corporate names need to be searched. For large general libraries or those with moderately-sized architecture collections, the coverage of the two major architec- tural indexes should be sufficient to access the most important articles and books on historic preservation, regional architec- ture, or architectural aspects of the build- Selected Reference Books of 1988-89 565 ing and construction trades. For compre- hensive collections, each of these works can lead to useful sources of information outside the previously existing guides to the literature.-B.S.-A. STATISTICS Thorndale, William and William Dol- larhide. Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920. Baltimore: Genea- logical Publishing, [1987]. 420p. $49.95 (ISBN 0-8063-1188-6). LC 87-80193. This atlas is a fascinating source for the historian, genealogist, demographer, or geographer. It contains state maps show- ing contemporary county boundaries for each federal census year, beginning with 1790 and ending with 1920 "in anticipa- tion of the release of the name lists of that [manuscript] census in 1992" (Pref.). Some maps are also included from various state censuses taken in intervening years (e.g., Minnesota in 1857), if those records were received by the Census Bureau in Washington. The Map Guide is intended as an aid to researchers working with the manuscript census, the actual house-to-house enu- meration of individual heads of house- holds and their families and dependents, which is organized at a county level. Its 393 black-and-white maps depict county boundaries at the time of a particular cen- sus, superimposed over modem county lines. Availability of manuscript returns for various counties is indicated on each map. Detailed explanatory notes describe border disputes, settlement patterns, and name changes. Though these maps are primarily for use with the census, they also provide infor- mation about population shifts, political and economic change, and even foreign relations-viz. an 1840 map of Texas which explains the depopulation of most border counties due to "threat of invasion from Mexico." The authors, in a helpful preface and introduction, outline federal and state boundary laws, describe federal census-taking methods in the nineteenth century, and discuss the preservation and loss of federal and local archives. They also warn of the unreliability of some cen- 566 College & Research Libraries sus materials, whether because of copy er- rors or undercounts. An appendix de- scribes the "pitfalls of mapping boundaries,'' and a bibliography lists fed- eral, state, and county sources. The Index lists both present day and defunct or re- named counties. The maps included here are intended to represent only political divisions, and only a few geographical features, other than rivers and large lakes, are depicted. The inclusion of major cities and more · topographical detail would have been helpful. However, the authors have pro- vided a graphic point of reference for works such as Jos~ph Nathan Kane's American Counties (Guide CL204), and have brought together in one handy volume material otherwise embedded in innumer- able local and county histories.-B.J. ARMS CONTROL Arms Control, Disarmament and Interna- tional Security: An Annual Bibliography, 1987- . Claremont, Calif.: Regina Books, [1988]- . $29.95 (ISSN 0899- 6547). LC sn88-2108. This annual bibliography is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Armament and Disarmament, California State Uni- versity, Los Angeles, and the Arms Con- trol Association, Washington, D.C., un- der Richard D. Bums as editor-in-chief. Its focus is English-language books and monographs, articles, pamphlets, govern- mental and non-governmental docu- ments, dissertations, and reference works. The 2,016 citations are arranged in a detailed classed arrangement based on that used in Richard D. Burns' Arms Con- trol and Disarmament: A Bibliography (Guide CJ610). The eight topical chapters cover arms control negotiations, proposals and treaties; arms control/disarmament spe- cial issues; military strategy and theory; armed services and weapon systems; de- fense spending and procurement; inter- national and regional security; civil nu- clear power; peace education, movements and research; a final chapter lists reference works (including annuals and journals). There are personal author and subject in- dexes . September 1989 The Arms Control Association's monthly Arms Control Today has always been especially valued because of its bibli- ographical feature "Arms Control in Print''; having all the 1987 citations in a cumulative annual volume with indexing is undeniably useful, and many new cita- tions have been added to this volume. The great majority of the citations will be read- ily accessible in most college and univer- sity libraries. The subject indexing is not as satisfactory as it could be; the user is first advised to see the extended table of contents, since its entries are not repeated in the subject index. There is no countiy category for the United States or the So- viet Union, as there is for other countries; instead, entries are under the armed forces, e.g., Army, Soviet or Army, U.S. There are no cross-references or see-also references alerting the user that the N a- tiona! Security Council entries are filed under NSC, or the Central Intelligence Agency under CIA. One page of the index has been printed twice, and there are annoying typographical errors. True, the table of contents is very detailed, but a good subject index would greatly improve the next edition of this work.-D.K.G. Atkins, Stephen E. Arms Control and Dis- armament, Defense and Military, Interna- tional Security, and Peace: An Annotated Guide to Sources, 1980-1987. Santa Bar- bara: ABC-Clio, [1989]. 411p. $37.50 (ISBN 0-87436-488-4). LC 88-21822. Stephen E. Atkins is the arms control bibliographer for the arms control collec- tion at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. Since 1981, the collection has provided research support for the Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security Office, an interdisciplinary re- search organization located at the univer- sity and founded in 1978. Atkins has fo- cused on publications from 1980 through mid-1987 because of that period's transi- tion between the Carter and Reagan ad- ministrations, and the Reagan administra- tion's changes in defense and security policies. The scope of the bibliography encom- passes primarily English-language materi- als (with some French, German, and Spanish titles) of the following types: an- nuals and yearbooks; bibliographies; da- tabooks, handbooks, and sourcebooks; dictionaries; digests; directories; encyclo- pedias; guidebooks; hearings; journals; microfilm collections; newsletters; papers from strategic institutes and think tanks; slide programs; strategic atlases; text- books; and monographs. The four main subject chapters (arms control and dis- armament, defense and military, interna- tional security, and peace) are subdivided by these formats. Each of the 1,596 cita- tions consists of publishing information (including prices for serials) and a three- or four-sentence critical abstract. There are subject and author/title indexes (cor- porate authors are not included), and a publishers' directory. Atkins' annotations are excellent. He points out the chief value of each work, whether it be its currency, the reputation of its author, its statistics, etc. While most of his comments are positive, e.g., "the indispensable bibliography in the field,'' "the standard annual, II "the best source available, 11 "unrivaled, 11 he can also be astringent: the U.S. Dept. of Defense's So- viet Military Power is criticized because of "some overblown rhetoric," and the an- notation for Laird M. Wilcox's Bibliography on Espionage and Intelligence Operations notes ''The compiler makes no pretense about his right-wing orientation, and the annotations reflect his viewpoint. This bibliography is highly suspect and should be used with caution.'' Reference librarians and collection de- velopment librarians will be grateful to Akins for this work, and to ABC-Clio for pricing it so reasonably. Every college and university library should purchase this ex- cellent and reliable bibliography, and use it heavily for reference, bibliographic in- struction, and collection development.- D.K.G. WOMEN The Black Women Oral History Project: Guide to the Transcripts. Ed. by Ruth Edmonds Hill and Patricia Miller King. A project sponsored by Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Selected Reference Books of 1988-89 567 Women in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Radcliffe College, [1987]. 152p. The Black Women Oral History Project was begun by the Schlesinger Library of Radcliffe College in the mid-1970s. "The goal of the project was to interview a cross-section of the many women of Afri- can descent who made significant contri- butions of varying kinds to American soci- ety in the early and mid-decades of the twentieth century" (Pre£.). Seventy-two women from all over the United States were interviewed, many of whom were prominent in the fields of education, so- cial work, politics, medicine, law, or the arts. Topics explored in the interviews in- clude family life and background, educa- tion, employment, voluntary activities, and personal life. Each entry in this guide provides a brief biography of the interviewee, a summary of the primary subjects covered in the transcript of her oral history, and informa- tion on access to the transcript and inter- view tapes. The index combines names and subjects mentioned in each entry. Al- though access to some of the transcripts and tapes is temporarily restricted, most may be read at the Schlesinger Library, or may be borrowed through interlibrary loan. Copies of the transcripts may also be acquired by manuscript and oral history repositories for the cost of the photocopying.-$. S. Women's Movements of the World: An Inter- " national Directory and Reference Guide. Ed. by Sally Shreir. London: Longman, [1988]. 384p. $95 (ISBN 0-582-00988-X). LC 87-35031. Described by the editor as ''a guide to the current status of women's issues and organizations, 11 this Keesing' s publica- tion attempts to identify and describe women's liberation movements in a global context. The work, organized primarily by country of interest and origin, also con- tains a section on ''international organiza- tions," organizations whose scope and domain cross national and, sometimes, re- gional boundary lines. Lastly, there is a bibliography which contains a sample of the published material-books and journals-of selected organizations. 568 College & Research Libraries Each national entry has an introductory section, broadly covering the current socio-politico-economic status of women within the given country, and includes such variables as: women's participation in political life, the workforce, and educa- tion; women's rights within marriage and divorce; and laws and practices relating to birth control and abortion. The next sec- tion is a list of the nationally recognized women's organizations as well as a sam- ple of lesser-known groups, listed alpha- betically in the language of the country of origin. International organizations, how- ever, are listed alphabetically in the English-language versions of their names. The arrangement of the bibliography, which purports to be a selection of ' 1 publi- cations of general interest'' published by women's organizations, is divided into periodicals and book sections. The bibli- ography also includes some publications, though not published by women groups, that are of "particular scholarly rele- vance." The emphasis in the compilation of the directory appears to be on organizations "with a separate and distinct member- ship," although there are a number of or- ganizations engaged in areas whose mem- bership is indistinguishable from a professional staff, e.g., in the areas of re- search and education, database and li- brary services, and technical assistance to women in developing countries. Not sur- prisingly then, inclusion is broad, not sim- , ply reflecting women's organizations "united by common beliefs and atti- tudes," e.g., Union des Femmes Burun- daises (Union of Burundi Women) and the Council of Women's Associations of Burma, but also organizations of women with common activities, e.g., Tentele Women's Co.:.operative Society of Swazi- land or Association for Women in Devel- opment of the United States, as well as women with common vocations that may highlight the significance of the position of women in a community, both national and global, e.g., organizations of women doctors and lawyers. Unfortunately there is no index. Per- haps the editor assumed that the arrange- ment by country would be sufficient ac- September 1989 cess. An index would have proven useful to those users who might remember the name of an organization but not the coun- try of origin; the assumption being that the user should not have to refer to an- other source for access. The bibliography seems useful though an expanded version that would include more Third World publishers would be of greater value. In arranging the national organizations by language of the country of origin, the editor displays an unquestioned sensitiv- ity to the subject matter, but in arranging the international organizations by the English-language version of their name only, she seems to lack the same insight. One would assume that she would also ar- range these by the language of the country of origin, perhaps with an English transla- tion. Despite its flaws, the work is still useful both in what it attempts to do and what it accomplishes. Directory information for some of the lesser-known organizations appear here, and nowhere else. Hope- fully, in its next edition, the editor will continue to improve the volume as it is a very useful work for scholars and other in- terested readers. In the interium, how- ever, the work does provide, in one place, a necessary resource of information on a movement that continues to gain momen- tum throughout the world.-C.B.R. BUSINESS International Directory of Company Histories. Ed. by Thomas Derdak. Chicago: St. James, 1988. v.l. $95 (ISBN 0912289104). This directory, the first of a projected five-volume set, outlines the historical de- velopment of 11 the world's largest and most influential companies" (Pre£.). Cri- teria for company selection include one or both of the following: (1) a minimum of $2 billion (U.S. dollars) in sales and/or (2) a leading influence in its industry or in age- ographic area. The five-volume set will in:.. elude 1,250 companies with each volume containing 250 entries. Volume one covers ten industries ranging from advertising to drugs; volumes two through five will cover industries from electronics to utili- ties. The entries are prefaced by a profile showing company logo, legal name, ad- dress, and telephone number of head- quarters, public or private status, incorpo- ration date, number of employees, market value and amount of sales, and the stock market on which it is traded. End-notes list principal subsidiaries, and citations to further readings on both the company and the industry. Wholly-owned subsidiaries are listed as separate entries. The chapters are arranged alphabeti- cally by company within each industry. The text, averaging from two to five pages for each company, is enlivened by journal- istic characterizations of the personalities that shaped the company. There is a handy list of companies grouped within their industry categories and an index to companies and persons. The directory is a valuable resource. In offering a guide in summary form to the elusive tidbits of information that paint a portrait of a corporation, it fills an impor- tant void left by traditional company directories.-D. S. Strauss, Diane Wheeler. Handbook of Busi- ness Information: A Guide for Librarians, Students, and Researchers. Englewood, Colo: Libraries Unlimited, 1988. 537p. $37.50 (ISBN 0872876071). LC 88-23093. This handbook is designed to introduce the user to the basic concepts and vocabu- lary of business, while providing detailed descriptions of key data sources. The first eight chapters are devoted to format- specific sources, e.g., guides, bibliogra- phies, looseleaf sources, directories, etc., and the remaining ten chapters are indi- vidually concerned with particular fields of business such as money, investment, banking, marketing, and accounting. Each of the latter group of chapters be- gins with a discussion of the fundamen- tals of its topic, and this is followed by con- siderations, in a narratively amplified \style, of the significant reference tools. il- lustrations of sample entries from sources are provided with a practical generosity. Inclusiveness is intentionally absent from this handbook; the field of manage- ment literature, for example, is omitted. It was decided that areas of business cov- Selected Reference Books of 198~9 569 ered adequateiy elsewhere could be left out in favor of a gain in the thoroughness of treatment of those included. Twelve ap- pendices list items, sources, and agencies of a particularly useful nature, especially to a beginning librarian or researcher. Machine-readable data files (MRDF) are given a chapter unto themselves. The na- ture of the industry providing these sources will cause the information to be- come dated more quickly than that related to the print-based sources. In implicit rec- ognition of this fact the print sources that track and monitor MRDF products are described.-J.C. ARCHAEOLOGY Past Worlds: The Times Atlas of Archaeology. Maplewood, N.J.: Hammond, 1988. 319p. $85 (ISBN 0-7230-0306-8). LC 88- 675201. More of a pictorial encyclopedia than a simple atlas, Past Worlds depicts in maps, graphs, charts, photographs, and draw- ings "world history, from the beginning of human life down to the emergence of · the modem world" (Introd.). As no atlas could possibly cover such a broad time span comprehensively, the authors have chosen to highlight key sites, cultures, and topics and have managed to convey a great deal of information in a handsomely illustrated volume. Maps are grouped within five broad chronological and geographical chapters, from ''Human Origins, 16 Million-10,000 B.C.," to "Towards the Modem World, A.D. 650-1800." An introductory chapter covers techniques in archaeology, such as dating and excavation, and topics such as warfare, burial, and ritual. Each two-page spread is devoted to one map subject, with descriptive text, and photographs or illustrations of cultural artifacts, cos- tumes, building elevations, floor plans, cross-sections, or graphs. A useful chron- ology, divided into five geographic re- gions, lists significant events, sites, and cultures. A glossary of archaeological terms, an index, and a short bibliography for each map complete the atlas. The topical nature of this volume will please many readers, who will find here a 570 College & Research Libraries visually appealing thumbnail sketch of the Mississippi Mound Builders or the Aztecs or the Indus Valley Civilization. One wishes that entries in the index might be somehow "weighted" to indicate which topics are the subject of a two-page spread and which are only spots on a map or mentioned briefly in the text. However, readers of all ages will enjoy browsing through this colorful volume.-B.J. HISTORY The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians. Ed. by John Cannon and others. Oxford, New York: Blackwell, 1988. 480p. $45 (ISBN 063114708X). LC 88-19361. The dictionary of historians and histori- ography covers the period from antiquity to the twentieth century. Concise articles, largely contributed by British historians, give biographies of some 450 historians, from Thucydides to Arthur M. Schle- singer, Jr. Over 50 living scholars are in- cluded. The work is compiled for British and American readers (see the Preface) and consequently selections favor Anglo- American historians and their principal sources of inspiration, Greco-Roman au- thors, and Western European historians. Other areas of the world are very skimpily dealt with by survey articles: "Japanese historiography," "New Zealand histori- ography," etc. Each signed entry is accompanied by a short bibliography: main publications of the biographee and further readings on the subject. In addition to biographies of historians and brief histories of historiog- raphy by country or region, the Dictionary includes such topics as genres of history ("legal history," "oral history"), schools and theories (''Whig interpretation of his- tory," II Annales school") and interdisci- plinary ~pproaches (" cliometrics," "an- thropology and history''). Within its limitations, the dictionary is a good one and even a readable, entertain- ing piece of work to peruse.-J.S. · Lincove, David A. and Gary R. Treed way. The Anglo-American Relationship: An An- notated Bibliography of Scholarship, 1945-1985. Bibliographies and Indexes September 1989 in World History, v.14. New York: Greenwood, 1988. 415p. $49.95 (ISBN 0-313-25854-6). LC 88-7225. From now on the ''special relationship'' between England and the United States will be much easier to document, thanks to this well-arranged bibliography. The authors have included monographs, es- says, articles, and British and American dissertations discussing the relations be- tween the two countries from the end of the Revolutionary War through the 1970s. The first part covers non-diplomatic re- lations, including social, cultural, and eco- nomic relations arranged by topic. Pure literary criticism is not included. The reader, for example, can find discussions of Charles Dickens' views of slavery and the American reaction, but not articles specifically on Martin Chuzzelwit. The sec- ond part covers diplomatic and military relations, and is arranged chronologically. An author and a detailed subject index conclude this useful bibliography.-M.C. Moir, Martin. A General Guide to the India Office Records. London: British Library, 1988. 331p. (ISBN 0712306293). Singh, Amar Kaur Jasbir. A Guide to Source Materials in the India Office Library and Records for the History of Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan, 1765-1950. London: British Li- brary, 1988. 187p. £30 (ISBN 071230634X). The British Library has published these two volumes describing various parts of the collection of the India Office Library. Formerly the East India Company, the ar- chives and books passed through a suc- cession of departments of the British gov- ernment, including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to become a part of the British Library in 1982. Though the Library was carefully cataloged and main- tained, researchers found little help in de- termining exactly what materials are in this exceedingly rich collection. There was a Guide to the India Office Records . 1600-1858, by William Foster (London, • 1919. 130p.) and there have been guides to portions of the collection, especially the books. S. C. Sutton issued a Guide to the India Office Library, 2d. ed., 1967 (Guide DE98) which was not very detailed. Martin Moir' s General Guide to the India Office Records first describes the adminis- trative organization with charts, descrip- tions of duties, sub-units, and details of appointment. This helps one in under- standing the organization of the archives, which is carefully described in the second part. Each class and file is detailed and cross-references to parts of a file in an- other record group are cited. Mr. Moir does state that for the early period Foster is still useful and cites specific page num- bers in it. Amar Kaur Jasbir Singh covers specific countries: Tibet, Sikkim, Bhutan for offi- cial and private papers but also for maps, official publications, prints and drawings, and books. Singh is much more specific in giving the researcher the name of a paper with its file number, but then he has fewer papers to identify than Moir. Both vol- umes are well indexed. Any collection serving researchers on South Asia will find these two volumes essential.-E.M. Valk, Barbara G., et al. BorderLine: A Bibli- ography of the United States-Mexico Bor- derlands. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications; River- side: University of California Consor- tium on Mexico and the United States, [1988]. 711p. $150 (ISBN 0-87903-112-3). LC 88-4565. BorderLine is a printed by-product of the Borderline database, a subsystem of the ORION online catalog at UCLA and avail- able for searching to all those who have ac- cess to the UCLA OP AC. While the data- base itself is still growing, the ''need to disseminate the research as widely as pos- sible . . . prompted the publication of the citations compiled to date" (Pref.). Re- searchers are invited to request updates on specific topics from the UCLA Latin American Center. Similar in scope to Ellwyn Stoddard's Borderlands Sourcebook (Guide DB129), this bibliography covers all aspects of South- western culture, sociology, history, de- mography, politics, religion, and geogra- phy. The borderlands are here defined as four U.S. states: California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas and six Mexican ones: Selected Reference Books of 198~9 571 Baja California, Chichuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Sonora, and Tamaulipas. Material in all formats is included: books, serials, journal articles, technical reports, government documents, dissertations, maps and conference proceedings. ''Cita- tions were selected on the basis of their re- search value and pertinence to the study of the border region and border issues" (Intro.). The majority of entries were pub- lished between 1960 and 1985, though im- portant earlier works, such as Paul Horgan's Great River, are also included, as well as many old books and maps re- printed in the last few decades. Entries are in a classified arrangement within twenty-six chapters, which cover subject areas such as labor, immigration, anthropology, agriculture, and descrip- tion and travel. Unfortunately, there is no subject index, so readers are forced to rely on a detailed table of contents which de- scribes the scope and focus of each chap- ter. Chapters are further subdivided into geographical, time period, or format (bib- liographies, maps) sections. An author in- dex concludes the volume. Locations, drawn from the holdings of about 35 re- gional libraries, are indicated for each item.-B.J. SCIENCES Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Ed. by Robert A. Meyers. New York: Academic, 1989. 807p. $49.95 (ISBN 0- 12-226690-0). LC 88-24062. This encyclopedia is derived from the Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technol- ogy, a 15-volume set published by Aca- demic Press in 1987. This fact is stated in extremely small print on the verso of the title page, though it appears nowhere in the preface or introduction of the book. It consists of 41 signed survey articles on broad topics such as infrared astronomy, quasars, black holes, and planetary atmo- spheres. Each article is prefaced by a glos- sary defining key terms, and by a brief outline of the article's structure. Articles typically contain many useful illustrations and charts, and each has an appended brief bibliography. These bibliographies are uneven in that some consist of refer- 572 College & Research Libraries ences to technical journal articles while others list references to books and articles intended for the general reader. The au- thors include some well-known names, notably Stuart Shapiro and Harry Ship- man. The articles are solid expositions of technical topics written by specialists who do not hesitate to use mathematical and chemical equations to express their ideas, although the reader is spared the deriva- tions of these equations. A new article on Supernova 1987 A seems to be the only re- vision of the 1987 parent publication. An index is included, but it is not sufficiently detailed to include glossary terms. This volume is an interesting survey of current astronomy and astrophysics top- ics, and a good purchase for the library un- able to afford the parent publication. It is . the newest such publication available for a fast-moving field. However, as a reference volume it has its drawbacks. Reference questions on such topics as parallax and syzygies cannot be easily answered using this volume due to the insufficiently de- tailed index. Material on instrumentation is not grouped together. Instead the vol- ume offers articles on radio and optical as- tronomy, but x-ray and gamma-ray instru- mentation must be accessed through the index. The undergraduate seeking an arti- cle about the planet Venus will be disap- pointed in this volume, since it does not contain discrete treatments of individual planets. In short, this volume will be a good addition to a college reference collec- tion or to a private library, but unfortu- nately it will not replace older volumes such as the Larousse Encyclopedia of Astron- omy or the Mc-Graw Hill Encyclopedia of Astronomy. -M.K. Singleton, Paul and Diana Salsbury. Dic- tionary of Microbiology and Molecular Biol- ogy. 2nd ed. Chichester, New York: John Wiley, 1987. 1,019p. $149 (ISBN 0- 471-91114-3). LC 87-19047. This is a thoroughly revised and ex- panded edition of the Dictionary of Microbi- ology (Guide EC31). The scope and length of the original work has doubled. The au- thors' aim was to "assemble a detailed, comprehensive, and interlinked body of information ranging from the classical de- September 1989 scriptive aspects of microbiology to cur- rent developments in related areas of bio- energetics, biochemistry and molecular biology" (Pre£.). They have achieved this goal by producing a dictionary which pro- vides much more than simple definitions. It contains a great deal of background in- formation on the concepts and research is- sues in microbiology, biochemistry, bio- energetics and molecular biology. The dictionary includes definitions of salient techniques, terms, acronyms and concepts, and descriptions of over 1,000 microorganisms. The original entries have been updated and entries have been added. Because the alphabetical order of the entries is complex, following biochem- ical conventions, there is a guide to this al- phabetic scheme to aid students in its use. The authors have provided five appendi- ces which contain flow charts illustrating biochemical pathways, as well as a key to journal abbreviations, and a key to book references. -K.M.K. NEW EDITIONS, SUPPLEMENTS, ETC. Maps Contained in the Publications of the American Bibliography 1639-1819: An Index and Checklist (Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow, 1988. 367p. $37.50) by Jim Walsh is an in- dex to all maps in books or maps sepa- rately published which are cited in Evans (Guide AA557) or Shaw and Shoemaker (Guide AA567). The entries are arranged by American Bibliography number and there are indexes by date of publication, place of publication, name, book title, map title, and geographic area. Only those works in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman and modern romanized Turkish cataloged by the Library of Con- gress were included in the National Union Catalogs (Guide AA126) but publications in those languages have been reported by some 240 libraries in the United States. Now the Library of Congress has pub- lished volume 1 of The Near East National Union List, compiled by Dorothy Stehle (Washington, D.C., 1988. 867p. $47). This includes the main entries beginning with A and all the cross-references to them, B-Z. A title index refers the user to the proper main entry; cut-off date was 1979. The new second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary has appeared (Oxford, Clarendon Pr.; N.Y., Oxford Univ. Pr., 1989. 20v. $2,500). On first glance it seems the entries from the first edition and from the Supplement (Guide AD27) have been merged with small changes. About 5,000 new words, senses, and combinations have been added primarily in the first part of the alphabet because the first two vol- umes of the supplement are some fifteen years old. It will take a period of use to evaluate the differences, but this will be a treat. Now if we only had the second edi- tion on compact disc: this is not planned until around 1992. Roget's II: The New Thesaurus (Guide AD109) has appeared in an expanded edi- tion (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, [1988]. 1,135p. $12.95) with the addition of near- synonyms, antonyms, and near- antonyms to many of the words. Gale continues publishing its series of directories. The Directory of Directories (Guide CH256) is now Directories In Print (Detroit, Gale, 1989. $195) with the sixth edition, currently covering over 10,000 publications. The index also includes ref- erences to entries in the International Direc- tories in Print (Detroit, Gale, 1988. $175). The ninth edition of the Publisher's Di- rectory (Detroit, Gale, 1989, $275. Guide AD355) is now in one volume in a three- column format. What is most useful, how- ever, is the inclusion of entries from the Literary Market Place (Guide AA353) instead of cross-references as in previous editions. The Personal Name Index to The New York Times Index, 1975-1984 Supplement com- piled by Bryan A. and Valerie R. Falk (Verdi, Nevada, Roxbury Data Interface, [1988], for earlier years of coverage see Guide AF79) concludes with volume 4, R-Z. The editors note that the volume in- cludes errata entries from 1851-1974 al- though a check of four pages of text and the beginning and end pages locates no er- rata. Just arrived is the seventeenth edition of American Men and Women of Science, 1989-90, subtitled "A Biographical Direc- tory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Bio- logical and Related Sciences'' (New York, Selected Reference Books of 1988-89 573 .Bowker, 1989. 8v. $650; previous editions Guide EA221). The dictionary covers over 3,800 scientists "who have made signifi- cant contributions in their field" (Pre£.) and provides a discipline index. Now maybe Bowker can get down to updating the social sciences volume, which is still in the thirteenth edition (Guide CA75). The Bicentennial Edition of the Biograph- ical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989 (Washington, GPO, 1989. 2,104p. Senate doc. 100-34) includes some 11,000 men and women who were in Con- gress at any time from 177 4 to June 30, 1988. The previous volume (Guide CJ140) covered to 1971. A new feature is the refer- ence to scholarly biographical dictionaries such as the Dictionary of American Biogra- phy and to books and articles for longer ac- counts. Publications of the United States Con- gress seem difficult to identify and locate, though, of course, important. Two re- vised editions of aids for researching this material have been issued. In Congress and Lilwmaking: Researching the Legislative Pro- cess (Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-Clio; Ox- ford, Eng., Clio Pr., [1989]. 306p. $35; 1st ed. 1979, Guide CJ132), Robert Goehlert and Fenton S. Martin have revised, ex- panded, and updated the text and the bib- liographies. Very useful is a new detailed section in Chapter One on how a bill passes through Congress and on how to compile a legislative history. The other new edition is Congressional Publications and Proceedings: Research on Legislation, Budgets and Treaties (Englewood, Colo., Li- braries Unlimited, 1988. 299p. $27.50; first edition 1983 entitled Congressional Publica- tions). This volume, too, is extensively up- dated and revised and adds Appendix B: Legislative Information Sources identify- ing congressional, and other federal and nonfederal publications. The catalog of the Library of Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology was published in 1963 with four supplements (Guide CE12). Now named the Tozzer Library at Harvard, this catalog is issued in a second edition cumu- lating earlier entries and, of course, add- ing newer acquisitions through June 1986 (Boston, G.K. Hall, 1989. 1,116 fiche. 574 College & Research Libraries $6,000). The citations are divided between author/title and subject as in the older edi- tion. Changes in the headings can confuse readers, e.g., Mexico-Archaeology- [name of site] is no longer used. To update this catalog the same publisher is issuing an annual Bibliographic Guide to Anthropol- ogy and Archaeology, 1987- (Boston, G.K. Hall, 1988. $165) for materials cataloged by the Tozzer Library: books, serials, manu- scripts, microforms, maps and video re- cordings. A reminder: journal articles are cited in the T ozzer' s Anthropological Litera- ture from July 1984 on (Guide CE28). The Handbook of American Popular Litera- ture (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood [1988]. 408p. $55) edited by M. Thomas Inge is an updating and revision of ten of the chapters of the Handbook of American Popular Culture (Guide CF90), e.g., chil- dren's literature, detective and mystery novels, etc., with the addition of four chapters, big little books, comic books, popular history and biography, and young adult fiction. The Twentieth Century is now covered by European Writers (New York, Scribner, [1989], 2v. $150). Volumes 8 and 9 of the series, they feature Freud to Valery, and Pio Baroja to Kafka. And in another series, A Library of Literary Criticism, a part of Europe is also covered by Modern Spanish and Portuguese Literatures (New York, Un- gar, 1988. 615p. $75). Compiled by Mar- shall J. Schneider and Irwin Stern it presents an overview of selections from critical opinion up to around 1984 for au- thors of Spain and Portugal writing in Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and Portu- guese. Robert E. Bell's Place-Names in Classical Mythology: Greece (Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-Clio, [1989]. 350p. $50) is a compan- ion to his earlier Dictionary of Classical My- thology: Symbols, Attributes and Associations (Guide CF23). This time Bell has identified about 1,000 places and given a few senten- ces for each, locating the site and adding its mythological context. Ancient authors in the Loeb Classical Editions are cited wherever appropriate. ABC-Clio has produced another compi- lation of entries from their databases: His- torical Abstracts and America: History and September 1989 Life, this time for Bibliographies in History (Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-Clio, [1989]. 2v. $137.50). Subtitled, An Index to Bibli- ographies in History Journals and Disser- tations Covering the United States and Canada, the set includes any citation which has been indexed by the term ''Bib- liography" or "Bibliographies." The be- ginning date of coverage appears to be 1970 with a few citations from as early as 1965. Paolo Enrico Coletta has issued a re- vised edition of his 1981 Bibliography of American Naval History (Guide DB23), now called A Selected and Annotated Bibliography of American Naval History (Lanham, Md., University Pr. of America, [1988]. 523p. $39.50). Over 60 percent of the entries have been dropped to make room for more recent ones and the total number of citations comes in at 4,677 entries. The subject index has been expanded. How- ever "Zimmermann Telegram" has been lost and references for specific ships are now in the Author Index. Appendixes list secretaries of the Navy and chiefs of naval operations. Chris Cook and John Stevenson con- tinue their series of handbooks by compil- ing British Historical Facts, 1688-1760 ([London], Macmillan, [1988]. 252p. £35). This volume follows their English Histori- cal Facts 1603-1688 (Guide DC303) and pre- cedes British Historical Facts 1760-1830 (Guide DC304). The Spanish Civil War continues to fas- cinate and this year we have Band 2 of Der Spanische Burgerkrieg: Literatur und Bibliog- raphie by Klaus-Jorg Ruhl (Miinchen, Bernard & Graefe, 1988. 225p. 56DM; Scriften der Bibliothek fiir Zeitgeschichte N.F. Bd. 26; GuideDB484forv.l). This vol- ume covers political, economic and mili- tary topics and adds a supplement of pub- lications omitted inadvertently or too new for inclusion in volume one. The Canadian Encyclopedia second edi- tion, edited by James H. Marsh (Edmon- ton, Hurtig Publishers, [1988]. 4v. (2,736p.) $175. 1st ed. 1985) has been up- dated, of course, but also new articles have been added, the index expanded, and the number of tables, graphs, charts, etc., also increased. All of the articles are Selected Reference Books of 1988-89 575 signed, some have bibliographic refer- ences, and many of these have been up- dated to 1983-1986. A supplementary vol- ume is under discussion. The series of Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Archives and Manuscript Reposi- tories of the USSR (Guide AB155-AB156) continues with Ukraine and Moldavia (Princeton, N.J., Princeton Univ. Pr., [1988]. v.1, 1,107p. $125). 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