College and Research Libraries Handbuch der Bibliothekswissenschaft. Registerband. Bearbeitet von Renate Bellmann. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrasso- witz, 1965. 203p. DM 88,-. Only he who has actually indexed in full detail a major bibliography or refer- ence work can properly appreciate the depth of scholarship necessary to perform an adequate job. The competent indexer must know the subject almost as well as the author or authors in order to give the proper guidance to those who place confi- dence in his index. Often the indexer must undertake original studies and may even be led down the primrose path of reading some of the references. Miss Bellmann has done her job of in- dexing a noble. reference work with per- ception and good judgment. One suspects she has done a good deal of reading in the references in the copious footnotes of the H andbuch, but this pleasant vice did not prevent her from completing a work as exacting as any of the articles in the Hand- buch and surely infinitely more tedious. To distinguish between the miscellaneous Gregories, to transliterate properly and consistently from various non-Roman alpha- bets, to resolve bibliographical and library terminology under common index entries is no slight task, certainly nothing that anyone but a mature scholar should at- tempt. Although the editorial supervision of the original work under Georg Leyh was exemplary, the indexer's chore re- mained a difficult one. This index is not only impressive but also encyclopaedic. Obscure names or those known only to narrow specialists are iden- tified. Thus we note the entry on Samuel Ibn Negdela (Spanish-Jewish councillor, Maecenas, died 1055). It is equally con- venient to learn the dates of persons better known to us, e.g., Herbert Putnam ( 1861- 1955) or William Warner Bishop (1871- 1955). To know that Olivier Mallard was a sixteenth century illusb·ator and publish- er or that Josef Sakkakini was a nineteenth century papyrus collector makes the index much easier to use. Book Reviews In a sense this monumental index should be viewed as an encyclopaedia of books and libraries. Together with the great Lexi- kon des gesamten Buchwesens ( 1935-37) and the much lesser Lexikon des Buchwes- ens ( 1952-56), we have here all the en- tries and nearly all the information neces- sary for such an encyclopaedia. In the meanwhile, all credit should be given to Miss Bellmann for having made a ponder- ous Handbuch somewhat less forbidding to some inexperienced scholars. If a similar job were done, for example, on !wan MUl- ler's H andbuch der klassischen Altertums- wissenschaft, the Cambridge histories, or Aage Friis' Det nittende Aarhundrede, life would be much easier for all of us.-Law- rence S. Thompson, University of Kentucky. Planning Academic and Research Li- brary Buildings. By Keyes D. Metcalf. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. xv., 43lp. $10. (64-7868). Although library literature is filled with articles, proceedings of buildings institutes, and other useful information on college and university library buildings, it re- mained for Keyes D. Metcalf to do for aca- demic libraries what Joseph L. Wheeler and Alfred M. Githens did twenty-four years ago for public libraries. Planning Academic and Research Library Buildings, which will stand for years to come as the definitive work in its field, reflects the ac- cumulated experience of Dr. Metcalf's sixty years as a librarian, a career that has culmi- nated in his recognition by the library profession as the foremost library building consultant in the country if not, indeed, in the world. Encyclopedic in both breadth and depth of coverage, it will be invalu- able to librarians, consultants, and archi- tects alike. Dr. Metcalf's careful analysis and reasoned approach to library building problems is certain to exert a salutary influ- ence on the many academic libraries now in the planning stage and on those of the future. The first of the two parts into which the book is divided covers the technical as- I 233