College and Research Libraries librarian," and in the area of published arti- cles he is an example to follow. Ristow's in- volvement with the creation of the Geo- graphy and Map Libraries Section of the In- ternational Federation of Library Associa- tions and Institutions is fittingly observed by the multi-national spread of these essays and by the fact that two of the contributions are in French and one is in German. To state the obvious, thi~ work belongs in map libraries and in the libraries of schools of librarianship. Beyond that, it must be re- garded as rather specialized. Within its sphere of limited appeal, this is a valuable work , describing several map collections and giving a feel for the present state of an aspect of librarianship, that has yet to reach the full heights of its achievements. -J. B. Post, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . O'Hara , Frederic . A Guide to Publications of the Executive Branch. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Pierian Pr., 1979. 287p. $29.50 cloth ; $15 paper. LC 78-66368. ISBN 0-87650-072-6 cloth; 0-87650-088-2 paper. In contrast to its title, this reference work is a " guide" to publications of only the cabinet-level departments of the executive branch of the United States government. Even so, the author's efforts represent a formidable task that will be fully ap- preciated only by those who have tried to comprehend and to reduce to paper the pa- rameters of the massive publishing activity of the U.S . government. Compiled chiefly to serve as a selection tool, this work contains information concern- ing executive agencies and their functions that one might expect to find only in a de- tailed handbook or, indeed, in the United States Government Manual . This combina- tion would be quite incongruous for most reference works. Traditionally, selection ' tools , even those for government publica- tions, have been written along strict subject lines . Frederic O'Hara, professor of library science at Long Island University, deviates from this practice. His basis of organization is by publisher-in this case the agencies of the executive branch. This is possible since a government agency's publications reflect its relatively consistent concerns. The basic arrangement of the work is al- Recent Publications I 179 phabetical by executive branch depart- ments. Each agency within a department is then treated in turn. The function , scope, and description of the agency are provided, often in considerable detail. This is followed by a delineation of the Superintendent of Documents classification numbers assigned to the agency, bibliographies of agency p~b­ lications, and information about careers within the agency. Further categorical breakdowns of publications include: descrip- tions, histories, and grant programs of the agency; bibliographies generated by the agency; catalogs of audiovisual material; dic- tionaries and glossaries; statistical publica- tions; histories produced by the agency; di- rectories and addresses of regional offices; research results; regulations; and other use- ful series and titles. Entries under each category are fully and wittily annotated. In addition, each entry is symbolically designated for its suggested utility in a reference collection or vertical file in college, public, school, or special li- braries. Four separate indexes (agency, per- Out of Stock? Back Orders? If your wholesaler has long de- lays in completing "out of stock" and "back orders", why not try the firm that specializes in this area. Current imprints are easy to deliver but it takes a personalized, special- ized attention to give you reliable service on back list or other hard-to- get items. At Book House we call it "Con- cerned Service" and it works every day for a growing clientele includ- ing academic libraries just like yours. - Call 5 17 -849 -2117 Coll ec t - the BOOK HOUSE SI NCE 1112 J()eiEIIIS SERV ING LI I AAIIIIES W ITH ANV lOO K IN PfiiiN T 208 W EST CHI CAGO ST R EET JONESII lllf MIC HIG AN 49250 180 I College & Research Libraries • March 1980 sonal name, title, and subject) at the end of the work provide access to any item in the text. Perhaps as a result of the time involved in organizing and annotating such a great wealth of material, some of the information is dated. For example, numerous Superin- tendent of Documents classifications have been changed. More distressing is the ab- sence of any mention of the Department of Energy, established in 1977, and the lack of any reference to the publications of the Executive Office of the President. A longer introduction with a more detailed explana- tion of the organization of the work would also have been useful. Nevertheless, as a guide to executive publications of the U.S. government, O'Hara's work is without peer and is a sig- nificant contribution to the growing refer- ence literature dealing with U.S. govern- ment publications.-Steven D. Zink, Col- lege of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. ABSTRACTS The following abstracts are · bq,sed on those prepared by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources, School of Educa- tion, Syracuse University. Documents with an ED number here may be ordered in either microfiche (MF) or paper copy (PC) from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service, P.O. Box 190, Ar- lington, VA 22210. Orders should include ED number, specify format desired, and in- clude payment for document and postage. Further information on ordering docu- ments and on current postage charges may be obtained from a recent issue of Re- sources in Education. Evaluation of CAMLS Experimental ILL System. A Report Prepared for the Li- brary Council of Greater Cleveland by the ILL Evaluation Task Force. By Henry York and others. Cleveland Area Met- ropolitan Library System, Ohio. 1978. 17p. ED 168 502. MF-$0.83; PC- $1.82. This report is an evaluation of an interlibrary loan system that was put into operation for a six-month experimental period beginning January 1, 1978, by the Cleveland Area Metropolitan Li- brary System (CAMLS), a regional cooperative network of nineteen public, academic, and special libraries in northern Ohio. The objective of the system was to increase efficiency by means of three major components: (1) the use of OCLC as the principal locator source with telefacsimile machines to relay requests directly from borrow- ing to lending library; (2) the use of a central re- source library (Cleveland Public) to screen all re- quests for which OCLC did not provide a poten- tial lending library; and (3) the use of referral cir- cuit utilizing telefacsimile to route the remaining unfilled requests among member libraries. A statistical analysis of the ILL requests during the period indicated that more than one-half of all the requests were handled directly between the bor- rowing and lending libraries; of the remaining re- quests, one-third were filled by the resource li- brary; and less than one-third of all requests were placed on the circuit. The evaluation concluded that the experimental system was successful and should be continued. Other recommendations and the questionnaire used in the evaluation are included in the report. - A Glossary of ERIC Terminology. Comp. by Marilyn R. Laubacher. ERIC Clear- inghouse on Information Resources, Syra- cuse Univ., N.Y. 1978. 25p. ED 168 506. MF-$0.83; PC-$1.82 . Designed to be of assistance to the new ERIC user, this glossary provides brief definitions of more than sixty terms associated with the ERIC data base and the search process. These include titles of indexes , agencies, and acronyms peculiar to ERIC as well as terms used to describe com- puter search strategy. A directory of ERIC net- work components-including the sixteen clearinghouses-is also provided. Design and Testing of a Method to Reach Agreement for Responsibilities in Collec- tion Building among Libraries. Final Re- port. By Gretchen Redfield. Cleveland Area Metropolitan Library System, Cleve- land, Ohio. 1978. 37p. ED 171 237. MF-$0.83; PC-$3.32. As a first step toward resource sharing among libraries in the Cleveland Area Metropolitan Li- brary System (CAMLS) , a method, called the Site Appraisal for Area Resources Inventory (SAFARI), was developed to examine the library . collections. This approach was different from others in that collections were compared by ex- perts in a specific field . After a committee was organized, specific libraries that had significant