College and Research Libraries 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 Of course, in the rapidly evolving Internet scene, this book became outdated the moment it was published.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 appendixes are conceived as a manual for those responsible for designing mass deacidification programs. (S. F. R.) Wittmann, Reinhard. Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels. Miinchen: C. H. Beck, 1991. 438p., 48 DM. (ISBN 3-406- 35425-4). The Gutenberg legacy notwithstand- ing, the history of the production, dis- tribution, and consumption of books has not enjoyed the kind of lively attention in recent German scholarship that it has in France. Wittmann's absorbing book, although a survey written for the non- specialist, is an important and original contribution toward remedying this deficit. It covers the German book trade from the late Middle Ages to modern times and stresses the socioeconomic and political conditions that have shaped the relationships of publishers to authors and readers. It addresses topics ranging from paper-making technolo- gies to governmental licensing and cen- sorship practices to the growth of literacy (from two percent of the popula- tion in 1,500). Also included are sketches of major figures in the history of German publishing, such as Philipp Erasmus Reich, Johann Friedrich Cotta, and Julius Campe. (S. L.) Academic Libraries: Achieving Excel- lence in Higher Education. Proceed- ings of the Sixth National Conference of the Association of College andRe- search Libraries, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 12-14, 1992. Ed. Thomas Kirk. Chicago: ACRL, 1992, 498p. $45.95 to ACRL members, otherwise $49.95, acid-free. (ISBN 0-8389-7622-0). In addition to the fifty-two con- tributed papers given at the 1992 ACRL conference, this collection includes the texts of the four "theme papers" (by Julian Bond, Paul Saffo, Catherine R. Stimpson, and W. David Penniman) and summaries-some substantial, too many only a sentence-of the program sessions. The contributed papers (comprising two- thirds of the text) lean heavily toward bibliographic instruction and public services (at ten papers each), with two Book Reviews 187 ... And even more readers. just like the CQ Weekly Report mentioned a couple of pages back, The CQ Researcher has its own loyal followers to ensure it never gathers dust on the shelf. 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