College and Research Libraries able for the historical investigator, and from them may be gathered many essential details of history. In a monumental collecting project of this sort a number of problems ~onfront the col- lector. Certain items are so scarce that it takes a long time to. round them up for film- ing, even if the location is known. The hunt- ing process itself makes items turn up too late, sometimes1 to use in normal sequence. To take care of these and a number of other contingencies the compiler of the Supplement has included a most useful addenda section which takes care of a number of unavoidable omissions and happy discoveries since the Guide was published. Many research institutions will want to add various segments of this monumental collec- tion of basic documents on film; indeed, a number of institutions may want to purchase the whole collection as a unit. Purchase in- quiries should be directed to the Photodupli- cation Service of the Library of Congress. This review note would be incomplete without generous praise for the zeal, energy, and prodigious scholarship exerted by the col- lector, compiler, and editor, William Sumner Jenkins. He is an unquestionable authority in his field. His position as teacher and direc- tor of research in government and political science is all the stronger for his assiduous study of the basic documents. -G. F. Shep- herd, Jr., Cornell University Library. Subject Headings Subject Headings,· a Practical Guide. By David Judson Hay kin. Washington, D.C., U. S. Government Printing Office, 1951. V, 140p. $.70. Mr. Haykin deserves the thanks of cata- logers and teachers of cataloging for this well written and well printed volume on a subject on which little literature is available. The statements of principles are clear, the examples well chosen. The principles themselves are generally sound, although the Library of Congress does not always follow them con- sistently. Mr. Haykin disarms criticism to some extent by stating that "the principles and rules of practice here presented represent, in many instances, what is desirable, rather than what has actually been achieved." This disclaimer seems too general, however, to cover the failure to discuss the variations and JULY, 1952 inconsistencies in LC headings which unduly complicate the explanation of subject headings to the library user. After a brief theoretical introduction the use of references to relate the various scat- tered headings is described. There follows a chapter on the form of the heading-simple, inverted, phrase, or compound. There is here, however, no discussion of the validity of the inverted form of heading. If the first princi- ple of a good subject heading is usage, and if the dictionary catalog does not recognize any classification in the arrangement of headings, then the use of an inverted heading "in order that it may appear in the catalog next to other headings beginning with that noun" should be more elaborately justified. On page 24 the lack of a reference "Heretics. See Heresies and heretics" is excused on the plea that no other headings would intervene. Actually two subjects "Heresy" and "Heresy (Canon law)" as well as all titles beginning with the words Heresies and Heresy, intervene. The fifth to seventh chapters deal with subdivisions and personal and geographic names. There is no general discussion of the type of material which takes a geographic subdivision under subject and that which takes a subject subdivision under place name, a distinction which is frequently difficult to explain. On page 39 there is a sentence dis- cussing the advantage of the form "Goethe as theater director" over a possible "Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von-As theater director," but no reference to the fact that in Appendix G the forms "Shakespeare, William-Bi- ography-As an actor" and "Lincoln, Abra- . ham-As a lawyer" are listed. A brief chapter discusses the over-extended use of duplicate entries which add their bit to the size of our catalogs. It is fully recog- nized that these have been used too frequently and the tendency is to replace them with a single entry. The relations of subject headings to author entries and added entries is next taken up, with the relation of the subject catalog to the shelf list, the forms of subjects for special libraries or special departmental, catalogs, problems of filing, and procedures and personnel in the subject cataloging field. Appendixes containing various special lists of interest in subject heading work (omitting, however, the subdivisions used under place names) complete the work. As a general introduction to the subject 281 this is excellent. For teaching purposes or as a working tool one would like a more detailed treatment of particular problems. It is re- markable that Mr. Haykin never refers to to the work of Ansteinsson in the third part of the Vatican Code, where rules for the use of subject headings in particular situations have been codified and made available. This is an almost indispensable supplement to the present discussion of general principles. It is only as one gets to a study of particular rules that the need for an explanation of such forms as "Art-France" and "Art, French," of the variations "French poetry," "Hymns, French;" "Bessel's functions," "Lame's func- tions," "Functions, Abelian," become ap- parent. It is to be hoped that Mr. Haykin, having succeeded so well in presenting the general, will be able to give us the particular also, and so provide a really practical guide to the application of these principles.-W yllis E. Wright, Williams College Library. ACRL Monographs, No. 3 The Establishment of Staff Requirements in a Small Research Library. By Saul Herner, and M. K. Heatwole, librarians at Johns Hopkins University A well-written case-study illustrating a method of library personnel administration which can be applied to the small college library, as well as to special libraries and the subject depart- ments of large university and research libraries. 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