reviews Book Reviews 387 Three essays deal with particular problems or approaches. The first treats the special problems involved with the emerging disciplinary structures of information available on the Internet. The second describes in replicatable detail how Dialog’s RANK command can be used to reveal the interdisciplinarity of a current field of study. The final pa- per in this section provides a view of the development of meta-analysis as a technique making its way from the so- cial sciences, where it was developed, into medicine, where it currently is achieving a degree of acceptance as a valid alternative to traditional ap- proaches. Given the inherent reliance upon “the literature,” the role of a bib- liographically capable member of a re- search team is stressed. The final section includes four papers that focus more directly on interdiscipli- nary studies’ impact on research librar- ies and the information services they provide their communities. The limita- tions of traditional bibliographic ap- proaches are highlighted by the use of a pair of interdisciplinary searches on the same subject—the first, done during the period 1975–1982, and the second, cov- ering the same initial period of interest but done in 1990–1991, after a wider set of databases and search approaches had become available. Though anec- dotal, the comparisons have value in de- scribing the relative benefits of newer techniques and technologies. The re- maining papers return to an examina- tion of the nature of research across in- terdisciplinary boundaries and the im- plications of such scholarship for re- search libraries, their organization, and the needs for changing the mind-sets and skill sets of reference librarians. Palmer ’s introduction provides a good overview of the book, but the more valuable contribution is bringing to- gether the wide-ranging experiences and points of view on a phenomenon that will continue to perplex conven- tional modes of handling the ever- changing landscape of knowledge.— Charles William Conaway, Florida State Uni- versity. Tallahassee. The Printed Catalogues of the Harvard Col- lege Library 1723–1790. Eds. W. H. Bond and Hugh Amory. Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Distrib- uted by Oak Knoll Press, 1996. 710p. $75. ISBN 0-9620737-3-3. LC 96-14236. In the past fifteen years, the scholarly community has become more inter- ested in the “history of the book”—the social, intellectual, cultural, and eco- nomic history of the way books and other printed materials are written, published, and read. William H. Bond, librarian emeritus of the Houghton Li- brary, and Hugh Amory, retired princi- pal rare book cataloger at Harvard Col- lege Library, have produced a valuable addition to the study of the history of the book. Bond and Amory have re- printed Harvard College Library’s first three printed library catalogues from the eighteenth century. They include supporting material explaining the cre- ation of the catalogs as well as provid- ing important tools for their effective use. The book is divided into three sec- tions: an introduction with two appen- dixes; facsimile reprints of the catalogs from 1723, 1773, and 1790; and an index. The introduction is divided into three parts. In the first part, Bond describes the history of the library, its physical ar- rangement, and the January 14, 1764, fire that destroyed the library. The sec- ond part is a brief description of the cata- logs and their organization. In the third part, Amory describes the printing and publication history of the three catalogs, as well as how and to whom they were distributed. The catalogs were digitized in color from the originals and reduced to black- and-white images. Missing or illegible letters due to faint inking or print- 388 College & Research Libraries July 1997 through in the originals were corrected in the reprint. An “apparatus” that ap- pears at the end of the facsimiles lists what corrections were made. However, actual errors such as typographical ones were left uncorrected. The 1723 catalog was the first college library catalog printed in the United States. Three supplements from 1723, 1725, and 1735 also are included. The 3,000-volume catalog is organized first by size (folio, quarto, and octavo). Within each size, the books are ar- ranged alphabetically for the first letter of the author or title with no further al- phabetization. For example, Poole is followed by Picatoris, Preston, and Prac- tice. Each entry includes the author ’s last name and an abbreviated first name, a title, the place and date of pub- lication, and shelf location. The 1773 catalog was the first to ex- plicitly select books appropriate for use and study by undergraduates. This catalog is organized by a single alpha- betical sequence based on the author. Each entry includes the author, title, for- mat, and shelf location. In 1790, in an attempt to make the catalog more useful, Harvard organized the catalog by subject. This catalog is divided into two parts: one for books and one for pamphlets. “Pars I” catalogs books alphabetically under fifty-four subjects, and “Pars II” catalogs pam- phlets alphabetically under fourteen subjects. Each entry includes author, title, edition, number of volumes, and place and date of publication. No shelf locations are included, probably be- cause of the size of the catalog. This volume is successful because of the comprehensive index the editors created. Without it, this would just be a very nice facsimile of three early library catalogs. This index addresses many of the difficulties of using the original cata- logs. In the 1723 catalog, the books are organized by size, which makes locat- ing a title difficult. In the 1790 catalog, if there was no obvious subject heading, the title was put under the heading “Mis- cellanea,” which consists of more than twenty-four pages. To create this index, Bond and Amory used Harvard’s card and online catalogs in order to identify each entry. This allows the user to search all three catalogs by author. Varying forms of names in the catalogs are cross-referenced to a modern form, usually based on the pre-1956 National Union Catalog. Anonymous works are listed by title and cross-referenced to the author if he or she can be identified. Incorrect titles are cross-referenced to their correct form. Finally, the authors c r o s s - r e f e r e n c e t r a n s l a t o r s t o t h e original author. Each entry in the in- dex also includes a page reference preceded by a letter indicating which catalog to search. For example, C33 is page 33 of the 1790 catalog. Unfortunately, this book will appeal to a limited audience. However, for those inter- ested in the history of the book, early American history, or the history of librar- ies, this book will be an exciting and worth- while resource.—Edwin C. Schroeder, Yale Uni- versity, New Haven, Connecticut. Reclaiming the American Library Past: Writ- ing the Women In. Ed. Suzanne Hildenbrand. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex (Information Management, Policy and Services), 1996. 324p. $59.50 cloth. ISBN 1-56750-233-4. $24.50 pa- per. ISBN 1-56750-234-2. LC 95-43839. With publication of this book, women’s history now has a place in librarianship. This historical reexamination of Ameri- can library history moves women from the margins of the profession to its cen- ter. The editor, Suzanne Hildenbrand, a professor of cataloging and online bib- liographic retrieval in the School of In- formation and Library Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo, enriches our understanding of women’s experiences in librarianship with these biographical sketches and essays. << /ASCII85EncodePages false /AllowTransparency false /AutoPositionEPSFiles true /AutoRotatePages /All /Binding /Left /CalGrayProfile (Dot Gain 20%) /CalRGBProfile (sRGB IEC61966-2.1) /CalCMYKProfile (U.S. Web Coated \050SWOP\051 v2) /sRGBProfile (sRGB IEC61966-2.1) /CannotEmbedFontPolicy /Warning /CompatibilityLevel 1.3 /CompressObjects /Tags /CompressPages true /ConvertImagesToIndexed true /PassThroughJPEGImages true /CreateJobTicket false /DefaultRenderingIntent /Default /DetectBlends true /DetectCurves 0.0000 /ColorConversionStrategy /CMYK /DoThumbnails false /EmbedAllFonts true /EmbedOpenType false /ParseICCProfilesInComments true /EmbedJobOptions true /DSCReportingLevel 0 /EmitDSCWarnings false /EndPage -1 /ImageMemory 1048576 /LockDistillerParams false /MaxSubsetPct 1 /Optimize true /OPM 1 /ParseDSCComments true /ParseDSCCommentsForDocInfo true /PreserveCopyPage true /PreserveDICMYKValues true /PreserveEPSInfo true /PreserveFlatness false /PreserveHalftoneInfo true /PreserveOPIComments false /PreserveOverprintSettings true /StartPage 1 /SubsetFonts false /TransferFunctionInfo /Apply /UCRandBGInfo /Preserve /UsePrologue false /ColorSettingsFile () /AlwaysEmbed [ true ] /NeverEmbed [ true ] /AntiAliasColorImages false /CropColorImages false /ColorImageMinResolution 151 /ColorImageMinResolutionPolicy /OK /DownsampleColorImages true /ColorImageDownsampleType /Bicubic /ColorImageResolution 300 /ColorImageDepth -1 /ColorImageMinDownsampleDepth 1 /ColorImageDownsampleThreshold 1.10000 /EncodeColorImages true /ColorImageFilter /DCTEncode /AutoFilterColorImages true /ColorImageAutoFilterStrategy /JPEG /ColorACSImageDict << /QFactor 0.15 /HSamples [1 1 1 1] /VSamples [1 1 1 1] >> /ColorImageDict << /QFactor 0.15 /HSamples [1 1 1 1] /VSamples [1 1 1 1] >> /JPEG2000ColorACSImageDict << /TileWidth 256 /TileHeight 256 /Quality 30 >> /JPEG2000ColorImageDict << /TileWidth 256 /TileHeight 256 /Quality 30 >> /AntiAliasGrayImages false /CropGrayImages false /GrayImageMinResolution 151 /GrayImageMinResolutionPolicy /OK /DownsampleGrayImages true /GrayImageDownsampleType /Bicubic /GrayImageResolution 300 /GrayImageDepth -1 /GrayImageMinDownsampleDepth 2 /GrayImageDownsampleThreshold 1.10000 /EncodeGrayImages true /GrayImageFilter /DCTEncode /AutoFilterGrayImages true /GrayImageAutoFilterStrategy /JPEG /GrayACSImageDict << /QFactor 0.15 /HSamples [1 1 1 1] /VSamples [1 1 1 1] >> /GrayImageDict << /QFactor 0.15 /HSamples [1 1 1 1] /VSamples [1 1 1 1] >> /JPEG2000GrayACSImageDict << /TileWidth 256 /TileHeight 256 /Quality 30 >> /JPEG2000GrayImageDict << /TileWidth 256 /TileHeight 256 /Quality 30 >> /AntiAliasMonoImages false /CropMonoImages false /MonoImageMinResolution 600 /MonoImageMinResolutionPolicy /OK /DownsampleMonoImages true /MonoImageDownsampleType /Bicubic /MonoImageResolution 1200 /MonoImageDepth -1 /MonoImageDownsampleThreshold 1.16667 /EncodeMonoImages true /MonoImageFilter /CCITTFaxEncode /MonoImageDict << /K -1 >> /AllowPSXObjects false /CheckCompliance [ /None ] /PDFX1aCheck false /PDFX3Check false /PDFXCompliantPDFOnly false /PDFXNoTrimBoxError true /PDFXTrimBoxToMediaBoxOffset [ 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 ] /PDFXSetBleedBoxToMediaBox true /PDFXBleedBoxToTrimBoxOffset [ 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 ] /PDFXOutputIntentProfile () /PDFXOutputConditionIdentifier () /PDFXOutputCondition () /PDFXRegistryName () /PDFXTrapped /False /CreateJDFFile false /Description << /ENU (IPC Print Services, Inc. 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