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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Internet scene, this book became outdated 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