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240 f College & Research Libraries • May 1972 

focusing attention upon problems which 
have beset college and university libraries. 
The authors believe that the general uni-
versity library survey will be used less fre-
quently in the future. 

It must indeed be gratifying to Robert 
Downs to have such a volume appear in 
his honor! All the essays contain useful ap-
pended bibliographies. 

This reviewer was shocked at the price 
of the book, which seems exorbitant-
$11.95 in the USA and Canada, and $13.15 
elsewhere. While the volume is attractive 
and pleasing in format, the design and 
production posed no special problems to 
justify such cost.-Cecil K. Byrd, Indiana 
University, Bloomington. 

A Bibliography of Latin American Bibli-
ographies; Supplement. By Arthur E. 
Gropp. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 
1971. $7.50. 
This supplement completes and extends 

the earlier volume which has long since 
become a necessary reference tool in a 
great number of libraries and private col-
lections. The basic work, which appeared 
in 1968, included imprints through 1965. 
The supplement covers the years 1965-
1969. It also includes 432 citations for ma-
terial previous to 1965 and for which data 
were not available for inclusion in the 
earlier volume. In addition sixty-four ad-
ditional bibliographic journals are cited. 

The arrangement is the same in the sup-
plement as in the basic work. Groupings are 
by subject with geographical subdivisions 
when necessary (e.g., Literature-Colom-
bia) . The sources for the bibliographical in-
formation are given unless the material was 
available at the Columbus Memorial Li-
brary or at the Library of Congress. This 
is a particularly important feature because 
it indicates where many of the hard to 
locate items might be available. 

The work is not exhaustive. Basically it 
includes selected citations from forty of the 
principal bibliographical sources, plus bib-
liographic data on items received by the 
Columbus Memorial Library and Library 
of Congress. Nevertheless it is a handy 
compilation and includes many items that 
would be almost impossible to find else-
where. 

Apparently the author's policy has been 

to include any separately published item 
whether it be a book or pamphlet. Peri-
odical items are not included nor unfor-
tunately the many fine bibliographical pa-
pers presented at the SALALM meetings. 
Perhaps a future edition might indicate the 
guidelines for inclusion plus covering the 
SALALM papers which are seldom covered 
in any bibliography. 

Apart from a few small typographical 
and indexing errors, this book is an at-
tractive, well-done, and much needed 
ready reference source. As such, it should 
be on the shelves of all college and re-
search libraries along with Geoghegan, 
Handbook of Latin American Studies, and 
Latin American Research Review.-]ohn G. 
Veenstra, School of Library Service, Co-
lumbia University. 

Key Papers in Information, Science. Ar-
thur W. Elias, ed. Washington, D.C.: 
American Society for Information, Sci-
ence, 1971. 223p. $5.00 to students and 
ASIS members; $6.00 to nonmembers. 
The volume contains reprints of nine-

teen articles that, according to the intro-
duction, "are relatively easy to read for 
beginning students" and "are likely to be 
useful for a number of years." The ASIS 
Education Committee selected the titles in 
this volume of readings designed for use 
in introductory information science courses. 
Although the contents of the volume as a 
whole, combined with an instructor's guid-
ance for evaluation, will be useful to stu-
dents, it will also be useful to those li-
brarians who are true professionals and 
continue to learn long after their years 
of formal education. 

The volume is organized into three sub-
ject areas-"Background and History," "In-
formation Needs and Systems," and "Or-
ganization and Dissemination of Informa-
tion," and concludes with "Other Areas of 
Interest." As seems to be inevitable, the 
headings of the subject areas include more 
than the subjects contained. The most satis-
factory and best integrated section is "Or-
ganization and Dissemination of Informa-
tion" which embraces six articles, :five of 
which are classical papers on automatic 
abstracting and indexing, and on selective 
dissemination of information. The five pa-
pers under "Information Needs and Sys-