College and Research Libraries to place the subsequent material in con- text. Part 1, "Glasnost Exposes the Prob- lem: A System in Decline," concerns the fire at the Library of the Academy of Sciences in February 1988, as well as re- lated problems of preservation and collec- tion maintenance. Part 2, "Information Politics, Partiinost, and the Spetskhran," in- cludes impassioned articles about the "cult of secrecy," obfuscation of the truth, and several articles on the special collec- tions that hid "dangerous" books from the public's eyes. Several articles discuss the role of ideology in information politics. Part 3, "Soviet Libraries and Democracy: Directions for the Future," focuses on ini- tiatives and actions by librarians outside the traditional bounds of party control, including formation of library associa- tions, participatory management in librar- ies, and library education. The selections are all well translated and read smoothly. The choice of articles is sound and the authors are well-known leaders in the Moscow and St. Peters- burg library worlds, as well as an estab- lished Russian literary scholar and a literary journalist. The book leaves the reader with a feeling of exhilaration and near despair. The exhilaration comes from the tremendous energies and spirit that have been unleashed among librar- ians in Russia; the despair results from knowledge of the tremendous obstacles that have yet to be overcome.-Robert H. Burger, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. SHORT NOTICES E. ]. Josey: An Activist Librarian. Ed. Ismail Abdullahi. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1992, 268p. $32.50. alk. paper (ISBN 0-8108-2584-8). This is a Festschrift for one of the out- standing African American librarians of our time, E. J. Josey. It consists of twenty- two short essays, a poem, and a compre- hensive bibliography of his writings. The contributors make good use of the occasion to describe their own ex- periences working with him, and, thereby, to recount a large portion of the history of the civil rights and antiracist struggles within the American library Book Reviews 185 While other publications gather dust, ours gather readers ... Publications that gather dust on a library shelf are the stuff that canceled subscriptions are made of. But then librarians tell us time and time again that the CQ Weekly Report is the one- stop resource for all their questions about Congress and national affairs. The Weekly Report is an essential part of any reference collection or government documents department. It crystallizes the key issues bef9re Congress, gives patrons readable bill summaries and Supreme Court decisions, offers the texts of presidential speeches and news conferences, and out- lines the results of key votes. Your library subscription also includes useful wall posters, special reports, and that sought -after reference- the CQ Almanac. By now you should be getting the picture. The CQ Weekly Report is more than a magazine. It's the publication of record. Your patrons' ticket to following Congress. Find out how you can subscribe and leave others in the dust. Call Gigi Perkinson toll-free at 1 (800) 432- 2250ext.279. ~~ In Washington, ~~ D.C. call cW~ii_w ss1 -6279. ' W #""" \\0~ ~\)(9-~ ~e ~~ .... ,:~~ "'~~ 186 College & Research Libraries profession during the past forty years. Josey has been an activist since the 1960s. He is a founding member of the Ameri- can Library Association's (ALA's) Black Caucus, and the Social Responsibilities Round Table. Also, he has served as li- brary director at two state colleges, and administrator in the New York State li- brary system. He is currently teaching in the library school at the University of Pittsburgh. Among the many interesting items in this volume is Sanford Berman's particularly engaging essay, which in- cludes portions of his correspondence with Josey to document their joint struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the racism of Library of Con- gress subject headings. Clara Stanton Jones and Eric Moon both give details of Josey's career from being refused mem- bership in the Georgia Library Associa- tion to becoming ALA's president in 1984. Two essays, by Ching-chih Chen and Vivian Hewitt, describe Josey's in- volvement with international issues through IFLA and the national library associations of many countries. (B. W.) Krol, Ed. The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog. Sebastopol, Calif.; O'Reilly, 1992 376p. $24.95 (ISBN 1-56592-025-2). This book is quickly becoming a clas- sic. The author, Ed Krol, is assistant director of LAN Deployment at the Uni- versity of Illinois and previously pub- lished (electronically on the Internet) the brief Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet. The new work is, in effect, a greatly ex- panded and updated version of the ear- lier Guide. Krol's approach is basically nontechnical and designed for the Inter- net neophyte. He briefly sketches the history and structure of the Internet (a network of computer networks) and clearly explains the basic functions of e-mail, telnet and ftp. He devotes a chap- ter each to several important informa- tion servers: Archies, Gophers, WAIS, and the World-Wide Web. The book ends with a 50-page "Whole Internet Catalog" in which Krol attempts to list with anno- tations roughly 300 of the most interest- ing resources currently available on the Net. Of course, in the rapidly evolving Internet scene, this book became outdated the moment it was published. Neverthe- less, it is extremely useful, not the least for its down-to-earth, commonsense attitude toward a vast, confusing, amorphous communications web that seems destined to play a major part in the information environment of academic libraries well into the next century. (B. W.) DePew, John N. with C. Lee Jones. A Library, Media, and Archival Preserva- tion Glossary. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1992. 192p. $59 (ISBN 0- 087 436-576-7). Designed as a companion to John N. DePew's A Library, Media, and Archival Preservation Handbook (1991) (reviewed in College & Research Libraries, Mar. 1992), thi s glossary is generally valuable though not comprehensive. It will be especially useful to those who are interested in or re- sponsible for preservation responsibilities but who have little training or back- ground. The entries for many terms con- tain references to more extensive treatments of the subject; these are listed in a brief bibliography at the end. (S. F. R.) Mass Deacidification: A Report to the Library Directors. Champaign, Ill.: Committee on Institutional Coopera- tion, CIC Task Force on Mass Deacid- ification, 1992. 161 p. This report will be of interest pri- marily to administrators and those who have responsibility for preservation. It documents the work of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's (CIC's) task force, concluding that CIC libraries should proceed to implement a coopera- tive pilot mass deacidification treatment program, purchasing services from Akzo. Such a program would address the need for mass deacidification, de- monstrate a market for these services, encourage the nascent industry, test cooperative selection, and push libraries to develop recurring budgets for this form of preservation. Beyond its conclu- sions and recommendations, the report presents a substantial corpus of informa- tion on a rapidly changing field of great interest to research librarians. Its extensive