College and Research Libraries EUGENE P. SHEEHY Selected Reference Books of 1965-66 lNTRODUCITON Tms ARTICLE continues the semi-annual series1 originally edited by Constance M. Winchell. Though it appears under a byline the list is actually a project of the reference department of the Colum- bia University Libraries, and notes are signed with the initials of the individual staff members. 2 Since the purpose of the list is to pre- sent a selection of recent scholarly and foreign works of interest to reference workers in university libraries it does not pretend to be either well balanced or comprehensive. Code numbers (such as All, 1A26, 2S22) have been used to refer to titles in the Guide3 and its sup- plements. GUIDES Totok, Wilhelm, Weitzel, Rolf, and Wei- mann, Karl-Heinz. Handbuch der bibli- ographischen N achschlagwerke. 3. er- weiterte, vollig neu bearb. Aufl. Frank- furt am Main: V. Klostermann, r1966 1• 362p. DM 45. The new H andbuch represents a com- plete revision and updating (to late 1965) of the 1958 edition ( Suppl. 4A80). It re- mains a fairly selective, annotated bibli- ography of bibliographies (with some oth- er closely related types of reference works included) concentrating on publications of Europe and the United States. While or- ganization of this edition is basically that of the previous one, there are changes within certain sections (e.g., language and 1 CRL, January and July issues starting January 1952. 2 Linda Benson, Marilyn Goldstein, Rita Keckeissen, Evelyn Lauer, Hugh Macdonald, Barbara Railo, Sarah Ropes, Charlotte Smith. s Constance M. Winchell, Guide to Reference Books (7th ed.; Chicago: ALA, 1951 ); Supplement (Chica- go: ALA, 1954); Second Supplement (Chicago: ALA, 1956); Third Supplement ( Chicago: ALA, 1960) ; Fourth Supplement (Chicago: ALA, 1963). 62/ literature). The selection of individual items has obviously undergone thorough review: some entries have been dropped, others from the second edition are sub- sumed in the annotations, and there are, of course, many new entries.-E.S. Walford, Albert John. Guide to Reference Material. 2d ed. London: Library Asso- ciation, 1966- . v.1- . (Distr. in U.S. by Bowker) Contents: v.1, Science and technology. Asst. eds., K. R. Rider and F. R. Taylor. 483p. £ 5; $15. Approximately three thousand entries in the whole range of science and technology ( UDC classes 5/6) , plus references in the annotations to another one thousand items, are included in the first volume of the new Walford Guide. (Volume 2 is to deal with social and historical sciences, philosophy and religion; volume 3 with generalia, lan- guage and literature, and the arts.) As be- fore, scope is inte1national, with emphasis on British publications. It is an impressive compilation, treating as it does of many works in very specific areas of the pure and applied sciences, as well as the more general reference works in these fields. Not only has a vast number of new items been added, but reference is regularly made in the annotations to superseded works or to works of secondary importance, so that only a very few items from the earlier edition have been dropped altogether. An- notations are generally admirable, some are quite detailed, and in some instances cita- tions to reviews are given. Finally, index- ing in this edition appears to be much im- proved.-E.S. LIBRARY CATALOGS U.S. National Agricultural Library. Nation- al Agricultural Library Catalog. v.1 no.1- , Jan. 1966- . New York: Row man & Littlefield, 1966- . Monthly wit quarterly cumulations. $72 yr. Selected Reference Books of 1965-66 I 63 U.S. National Library of Medicine. Current Catalog. Jan. 1/14, 1966- . Washing- ton: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service, 1966- Biweekly with quarterly cumulations. $15 yr.; 4th quarterly cumulation avail- able separately, $4.50. These new publications represent efforts on the part of two of our national libraries to keep scientists, specialists, and librarians informed of new additions to their collec- tions. Their scope and method of publica- tion invite comparison. Planned as a supplement to the Dic#on- ary Catalog of the library (which is sched- uled for publication in early 1967), the National Agricultural Library Catalog re- produces cards for all titles added during the preceding month. It does not, of course, supplant the Bibliography of Agriculture (Guide P233). Monthly issues are in three sections: a subject list under fifteen broad subject categories; an alphabetical main entry listing which cumulates quarterly; and a list of translated articles cataloged for the collection. Plans are being made to publish annual and quinquennial vol- umes, the latter to serve as permanent sup- plements to the Dictionary Catalog. A computer produced publication, the National Library of Medicine Current Cata- log supersedes the library's previous Cata- log ( Suppl. 2P60) . Biweekly issues include complete catalog information for works a'dded having an imprint date of the cur- rent or two preceding years; cumulations (each of which cumulates all entries from January to date of publication) include all titles added during the period, regardless of imprint date, excepting pre-1801 and Americana items. Main, added, and title entries are interfiled in the biweeklv is- sues; a separate subject section is add~d in the quarterly cumulations. As many as three appendixes appear in each biweekly issue: a directory of publishers, a record of vol- umes added to previously cataloged sets, and (less frequently) a list of reprints al- ready in the Library.-E.S. ENCYCLOPEDIA Grote Winkler Prins encyclopedie in twintig delen. r7. geheel nieuwe druk 1 Hoofred- actie: J. F. Staal ret al. 1; Amsterdam : Elsevier, 1966- . v.1- . $13.80 per v. (subscr.) Contents: v.1, A-Amor. To judge from the first published volume, the latest edition of this standard Dutch encyclopedia is being entirely revised: many articles have been added, some de- leted, and the others rewritten. Among the new subjects are technical or specialized terms in many fields, geographical loca- tions, and biographies of notable people both living and dead. The many illustra'- tions are almost all new, maps and charts have been redrawn, and photographs have been brought up to date. As in the past, many articles are signed, and some have bibliographies, the latter being up to date as of 1965 in this first volume. The twen- tieth and final volume, scheduled for com- pletion in 1970, will contain an index.- S.R. NEWSPAPERS & PERIODICALS The New York Times Index ... 1863-1874. New York: Bowker, r1966 1• 1052p. $44.50. (Prior series, v.2) This is the first volume to be published in the new "Prior series" which is designed to provide index coverage in book form from 1851 to 1912. The volume is repro- duced from existing indexes, originally printed for staff use (and previously avail- able on microfilm), covering periods of three months to a year; they have not been cumulated. While dates of coverage are clearly marked at the top of each page, colored sheets of heavy stock between the years would have facilitated use.-E.S. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodi- cals, 1824-1900. Walter E. Houghton, ed. rToronto 1: Univ. of Toronto Pr. ; r London 1 : Routledge & Kegan Paul, r1966- 1• v.1- . (v.1, 1194p. $75) Sub-title: Tables of contents and identifi- cation of contributors with bibliographies of their articles and stories. Scholars in many fields have long await- ed publication of this index. Planned as a "multi-volumed work that would provide students of the age with a new and better subject index, a book review index, and an 64 I College & Research Libraries • January, 1967 author index" (In trod. ) to magazines of the period, the completed project will pro- vide more detailed and, in some respects, broader coverage than P ooZe's Index and the Nineteenth Century Readers Guide. Work was begun with the author part as the most badly needed, and this first pub- lished volume deals with eight major peri- odicals: Blackwood's, Contemporary Re- view, Cornhill, Edinburgh Review, Home and Foreign Review, Macmillan's Maga- zine, North British Review, and Quarterly Review. The next volume, to be published in several years' time, will index another thirty journals. The first volume alone is a monument of careful research and editing. Part A offers issue-by-issue tables of contents of the magazines, with identification of the contributors (since most articles were pub- lished anonymously) and references to the evidence for attribution. Bracketed infor- mation is frequently provided to identify the subject of an article, the book under review, etc., and citations are given to re- printings of individual articles. Poetry is omitted. Part B, "Bibliographies of Con- tributors," furnishes an author approach, listing the articles of each contributor and referring to item number in Part A for the full citation. An index of initials and pseudo- nyms is also included.-E.S. PmLosoPHY International Directory of Philosophy and Philosophers. Gilbert Varet and Paul Kurtz, eds. New York, Humanities Pr., [1966]. 235p. $10. "Published under the auspices of the In- ternational Institute of Philosophy, with the aid of UNESCO."-t.p. With the purpose of providing a direc- tory "to serve as a guide to philosophy on a world-wide basis" (Pre£.) the editors have assembled information on philosoph- ical societies and organizations, institu- tions of higher learning and philosophical research, and philosophical publications. The directory is in two sections: Part I is a detailed list of philosophical organizations which are primarily international in char- acter, and entries include a brief history and chief activities of the organization. Part II is arranged by country or region, and usually includes an introduction, a list of colleges and universities (with names of members of the philosophy faculties) , insti- tutes and research centers, philosophical as- sociations and societies, philosophical jour- nals, and publishers who specialize in phil- osophical works. The introductions ( sev- eral pages in length for some countries, but not included at all for many others) are good survey essays on the history and character of philosophy in the various re- gions. Introductions are in English or French; other notes are in English, French, German, or Spanish.-C.S. RELIGION Bible. English. Modern versions. The Jeru- salem Bible. Alexander Jones, gen.ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966. 1547, 498p. maps. $16.95. Of the many recent editions of the Bible, this work is probably best qualified to join the Oxford Annotated Bible as a scholarly one-volume reference work. It is a very readable version in a well-printed edition with numerous footnotes, marginal refer- ences, and introductory notes or essays on individual books or groups of books. It derives from the French version edited at the Dominican Ecole Biblique de Jerusalem under the general editorship of Roland de Vaux, O.P., and known as "La Bible de Jerusalem" (1v. ed., Paris, Editions du Cerf, 1956). The introductions and notes are "a direct translation from the French, though revised and brought up to date in some places-account being taken of the deci- sions and general implications of the Sec- ond Vatican Council." (Editor's Foreword) The translation of the biblical text, how- ever, goes back to the original languages.- E.S. FOLKLORE Russkii fol'klor; bibliograficheskii ukazatel', 1917/1944. Leningrad: 1966. 682. 1r., 60k. At head of title: Akademiia nauk SSSR. Institut russkoi literatury. Although published five years later than the volume covering the years 1945-59 ( Suppl. 4K50) , this volume is chronolog- ically the first of a bibliographic series on Russian folklore which will be continued Selected Reference Books of 1965-66 I 65 by occasional supplements. The bibliog- raphy provides dtations to monographic and periodical materials, newspaper articles, and items in anthologies which were pub- lished in the Soviet Union in Russian. This volume includes 5,140 entries in three main sections: ( 1) texts; ( 2) research studies, articles, and sketches; ( 3) educa- tional and methodological literature, in- cluding bibliographic surveys. These major divisions are in turn broken down into sub- divisions, each of which is arranged chrono- logically. Name and geographical indexes serve as keys to the contents.-E.L. SociAL SciENCES Miller, Elizabeth W . The Negro in America. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Pr., 1966. 190p. $5. Topically arranged, with emphasis on social institutions and conditions, this use- ful work might be considered a kind of sup- plement to John P. Davis' recently pub- lished American Negro Reference Book. It is a selective guide to references on an im- ortant phase of American race relations, coverage being concentrated on articles ublished from 1954 through 1965. Each ajor section of the work commences with cope notes; some entries are annotated; nd an author index concludes the volume. his significant bibliography brings up to ate older ones in the field, and future ditions will be welcomed.-M.G. overty and Human Resources Abstracts. v.1, no.1- , Jan./Feb. 1966- . Ann Ar- bor: Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations , 1966- . Bi-monthly. $30 yr. Concerned with poverty, human re- ources and manpower development, this ervice provides information on research nd action programs, policy trends, and heir progress. Although there is emphasis n US activities, primary and secondary ources are international in scope, and ver three hundred and fifty publications re regularly scanned for relevant material. ppearing bi-monthly, the form has been ade flexible to allow for changing needs, nd arrangement varies from issue to issue. esides the major section of abstracts with ubject and content analyses, features in- lude reports on national and state legisla- tion, working papers, reprints of articles, subject bibliographies, and a section of citations for which a brief annotation rather than a full abstract is provided. An index appears for the abstracts only; one for the annotated items would be welcome. The need for this publication is undeniable and, once better organized, it will be of great value.-M.G. Wynar, Lubomyr Roman. Guide to Refer- ence Materials in Political Science; a Selective Bibliography. Denver: Colorado Bibliographic Institute, 1966- . v.1- (v.l, $6.50) The Guide is intended to introduce the student and the librarian to the reference tools of political science and related dis- ciplines. This first volume is devoted to gen- eral reference sources in social and political science, plus sections on political theory and ideology. (A second volume is to cover public administration, political parties, pub- lic law, international relations, and govern- ment documents.) Very brief, descriptive annotations are provided for most titles; the more general reference works are treat- ed at greatest length. There is an author index, but unfortunately the broad subject arrangement is not supported by a de- tailed alphabetical subject index. This seems a considerable limitation on the usefulness of the guide, although the author expresses hope that the rather full table of contents will compensate.-L.B. DICTIONARIES Grimm, Jakob and Grimm, Wilhelm. Deutsches Worterbuch. Neubearbeitung, hrsg. von der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin in Zusammen- arbeit mit der Akademie der Wissenschaf- ten zu Gottingen. Leipzig: S. Hirzel Ver- lag, 1965- . Bd.1- . Contents: Hinweise; Bd.1, Lfg.1 , A-Aben- teuer. Memories of the problems of assembling and binding all the parts of the first edition (1854-1960; Guide M241, etc.) of this great work must not deter librarians from wel- coming the beginning of a new edition. Work is proceeding jointly at the Berlin and Gottingen academies, and one hopes that the parts will appear in alphabetical 66 I College & Research Libraries • January, 1967 sequence. In addition to continuing the scholarly tradition of the earlier edition, and the obvious advantages of incorporat- ing new research, the second edition offers a slightly larger page and considerably more readable typography.-E.S. The Random House Dictionary of the Eng- lish Language. New York: Random House, [1966 1• 2059p. il., maps. $25. Indications are that this dictionary will be almost as widely (if, perhaps, less con- troversially) reviewed as was "Webster 3." Although a new work, it bears a distinct "family resemblance" to the American Col- lege Dictionary, using the same type-face and type-size, and incorporating various features of the smaller work: keys to etymol- ogy and pronunciation at the foot of the pages; personal and place names, titles of literary works, foreign words and phrases all included in the main body of the work, etc. Examples of usage are frequently given in RHD, but are not identified as being drawn from published sources. For librar- ies, up-to-dateness of vocabulary will be the real virtue of the work, but its relative inclusiveness and encyclopedic features (plus the atlas section, chronology, etc., which are superfluous in any but the smallest li- brary) will have appeal for home purchase. -E.S. SCIENCE European Research Index; a Guide to Sci- entific and Industrial Research in West- ern Europe. Guernsey, Channel Islands: F. Hodgson Ltd., 1965. 2v. ( 1694p.) £22,10s. This directory "contains the first com- prehensive lists of research establishments in many countries and covers the research facilities of European industrial firms for the first time." (Publishers' Introd.) Mter a general section listing European agencies, arrangement is alphabetic by country for the nineteen West European countries in- cluded. Within each country two alphabetic lists appear: first, research centers, firms, laboratories; and second, universities. For each entry are given title, English transla- tion (except for industrial firms), address, director of research and subject of research conducted or promoted. Each section is prefaced by a short essay on the organiza- tion of research in the country, with useful citations to two or three "further readings" on the subject. Two indexes-original lan- guage titles, and English equivalents-are found in volume two.-R.K. . I LrPERATURE Akademiia nauk SSSR. Fundamental'naia biblioteka obshchestvennykh nauk. So- vetskoe literaturovedenie i kritika: Rus- skaia sovetskaia literatura ( obshchie ra- boty); knigi i stafi 1917-1962 godov. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel'. Moskva: Nau- ka, 1966. 586p. 3r.,12k. This is a bibliography of Russian literary history and criticism on the general aspects ·of Soviet literature; individual authors will be covered in a separate volume. Annotated entries based on personal inspection of the materials are given for monographs, essays in collections, articles of research and crit- icism, the prefaces and epilogues of books, reviews, published documents, memoirs, speeches, and bibliographies. Arrangement is classified, and there is a detailed index.- E.L. Campbell, Oscar James, ed. The Reader's Encyclopedia of Shakespeare. New York: Crowell, [1966 1. 1014p. $15. Arranged in dictionary form, this single volume provides essential information on Shakespeare, his life and work, in a concise and highly readable manner. An all-em- bracing view of Shakespearean criticism is presented from his own time to the present, with even a section on computer scholar- ship. Entries for literall' influences, forms, characters, trends, critics and historians, Shakespeare's contemporaries, festivals, and interpreters are included. Several articles are done in essay style and are signed with initials of noted scholars in the field. En- tries for Shakespeare's individual works contain notes on the text, date, sources, stage history, and plot synopsis, plus crit ical comments, a bibliography of outstand ing editions and critical writings, and select- ed quotations from various writers, wit sources given. Numerous illustrations ar included; cross-references are provided; and a selected bibliography rounds out thi very useful contribution to Shakespear studies.-M.G. Selected Reference Books of 1965-66 I 67 Dizionario enciclopedico della letteratura italiana. Direttore: Giuseppe Petronio. Laterza: UNEDI, 1966- . v.1- Contents: v.1, A-Ca. When completed in six volumes, this am- bitious dictionary will be one of the major keys to a great literature. Modelled some- what on Bompiani's work of world-wide scope ( Guide R31 ) , this set is restricted to the literature of one country and language. The first and largest section of the diction- ary, comprising volumes 1-5, is to be a list- ing in one alphabet of major and minor Italian authors together with classical and foreign authors who have influenced Italian letters; politicians, princes, and popes who have patronized the literature; movements, cultural institutions, libraries, journals and magazines, and the language and terms of literary criticism. Author entries are com- posed of an expository or critical text fol- lowed by two bibliographies: a list of the definitive editions of the writer's work, and a list of books and articles about his work. A second section will be a title listing of all works cited in the articles, and will serve as a quick means of identifying the authors. Finally, the editors plan a third section as a general index. Here it will be ossible to locate all references in the dic- ionary to a given author-his works, adap- ations of works , his imitators and critics, is themes-indeed, everything that will elp to build around the central article a ore complete picture of the man and his "nfluence. The handsome volumes are print- d on good paper and illustrated in black nd white.-H.M. isher, John H. , gen.ed. The Medieval Lit- erature of Western Europe; A Review of Research, Mainly 1930-1960. New York: New York Univ. Pr. for the Modern Language Association, 1966. 432p. $6.50. Like other useful MLA "review of re- earch" volumes, this book contains authori- ative surveys of scholarship, each written y a specialist. Chapters cover Latin, Old nd Middle English, French, German, Old orse, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portu- uese, and Celtic medieval literatures. The ssays do not discuss primary works, nor o they pretend to cover all the scholar- hip in each language, but confine them- selves to a "discussion of the tools for re- search and the most important research produced between about 1930 and 1960," with the purpose of putting "into the hands of advanced graduate students and younger scholars . . . dependable evalua- tions of the research in medieval literature." (Foreword) An explanatory table of abbre- viations used and an index of proper n ames are included.-R.K. Harvard University. Library. Twentieth Century Russian Literature. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Pr., 1965. 142, 139, 140p. $20. (Widener Library Shelflist, no. 3) One of the first results of the Harvard library's experimentation in computer ap- plications is the publication of three com- puter-produced portions of the Widener shelflist. Earlier issues dealt with the cru- sades and Mrica. The present work covers the writings of twentieth century Russian literary authors, both Soviet and emigre. Only that section covering books b y and about individual authors is included. There are three arrangements of the book's con- tents: by call number, by author, by date. Entry gives surname with initials, title, place and date. Typeface is "computer" up- per case-small, but well-spaced and easy to read-and entries are rarely longer than one line. Updated editions and supplements are planned, and other portions of the shelflist are to be published.-R.K. Watters, Reginald Eyre and Bell, Inglis Freeman. On Canadian Literature, 1806- 1960; a Check List of Articles, Books, and Theses on English-Canadian Litera- ture, Its Authors, and Language.' [ Toron- to,: Univ. of Toronto Pr. , 1966. 165p. $7.50. Arranged by broad subject areas , w ith a separate section for individual authors , this bibliography presents a comprehensive in- troduction to Canadian literature in Eng- lish, bringing together widely scattered ar- ticles both on the state of the national lit- erature and on its practitioners . Ite ms are included, as stated, from 1806 through 1960, though most of the articles are from relatively recent years. The aim of the authors is to facilitate the study of the na- tional literature, especially belles lettr·es. Given this specific goal, it seems regret- 68 I College & Research Libraries • January, 1967 table that they decided to omit all study of the flourishing French Canadian school and, except for such few items as turn up in the "general" section, the effect - on a national literature of two strong languages. Within the stated scope, however, this is a useful point of departure in a field not well served by bibliographic aids, and it is a valuable and necessary companion to C. F. Klinck's Literary History of Canada (Toronto, 1965) which is also limited to Canadian literature in English.-B.R. BIOGRAPHY American Men of Science; a Biographical Directory. The Physical and Biological Sciences. 11th ed. Supplement 1- . New York: Bowker, 1966- . $10-$20 per v. In order to help satisfy the demand for current information while avoiding the need for publishing new editions more fre- quently, Bowker is offering this new series of supplements to its biographical directory for the physical and biological sciences. To be used in conjunction with the base vol- umes of the still incomplete eleventh edi- tion, the supplements will be published in a cumulative pattern (e.g., the first covers A-C; the second will cover A-G, etc.) and will include complete new biographies ( 1150 in Supplement 1), plus important new data such as changes in position, de- ceased notices, etc., for biographees in the main set. Criteria for inclusion are as for the base volumes. Four supplements are planned for the physical and biological sci- ences section; the last, covering through Z is scheduled for late 1967-presumably very soon after publication of the final volume of the main set for this area.-E.S. Talbot, C. H. and Hammond, E. A. The Medical Practitioners in Medi,eval Eng- land; a Biographical Register. London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965. 503p. 84s. "To bring together in convenient form all discoverable biographical information on the members of the medical profession in medieval Britain" (In trod.) , the authors of this unusual register searched all major col- lections of printed source material of British medieval history, pertinent manuscript col- lections, Public Record Office documents, and local historical society publications. The result is a compilation of thoroughly documented biographies (each statement is carefully footnoted) from the earliest times to 1518. Arrangement is alphabetic by forename, with dates so far as known. Enb·ies range in length from mere identifi- cation to thousand-word articles. The work is of value not only to the historian of medi- cine, but to anyone interested in medieval British culture. A list of books consulted, of abbreviations used, and a full index of names, places, and subjects enhance the book's reference worth.-R.K. U.S. Library of Congress. Hispanic Founda- tion. National Directory of Latin Ameri- canists; Biobibliographies of 1,884 Spe- cialists in the Social Sciences and Hu- manities. Washington, Library of Con- gress, 1966. 351p. $2. (Its Hispanic Foundation bibliographical series, 10) This welcome directory of contemporary scholars resident in the United States is de- signed to provide reliable information on clearly specialized professional personnel in Latin American studies, and by doing so, to encourage communication among schol- ars of related interests. Two groups are included in this selected list: "area" spe- cialists, and those whose fields (e.g., eco nomics, political science) are not limite by geography but "whose personal interes and linguistic abilities would make it fea sible and desirable for them to undertak professional pursuits in Latin America.' (In trod.) Entries, arranged alphabeticall by name, give place and date of birth major discipline, degrees, career, honors research specialities, major publications language knowledge, linguistic studies, an address.-R.K. HISTORY Chung, Y ong Sun. Publications on Korea i the Era of Political Revolutions, 1959 1963; a Selected Bibliography. [Kalama zoo, Mich. 1 : Korea Research and Publica tion, Inc., [1965 1• 117p. $3.50. A classified list of 967 titles in Korean Chinese, Japanese, and Western language this is a companion to K. P. Yang's Refer ence Guide to Korean Materials, 1945-195 and to S. H. Lee's Korea; a Selected Bibl ography in W·estern Languages, 1950-195 Most of the titles listed are in the Korea Selected Reference Books of 1965-66 I 69 nit of the Library of Congress, and are of outh Korean origin, but enough North orean materials are meant to be included ito answer basic reference needs. While the ork includes government publications, rofessional and academic periodicals, as ell as books, it is not intended to. be ex- austive; it seeks merely to "provide basic · formation necessary for study of the pres- nt political, economic and social life of or ea." (In trod.) Reference use is facili- ated by separate author and title indexes nd the standard romanization of alphabets hroughout.-C.S. ranee. Comite franc;ais des sciences his- toriques. La recherche historique en France de 1940 a 1965. Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Sci- entifique, 1965. 518p. 40F. This work is primarily a research guide o French historiography and, as such, it egins with two long essays: one on French istoriography itself, and the second on istorical research and the teaching of his- ory in France. These are followed by a ection which describes those institutions- chools, archives, libraries, museums, and esearch institutes-which are centers for istorical scholarship in France; and a sec- ion on publications (including a descrip- ion of the types of theses required in ranee), with an annotated list of French istorical journals. The last half of the vol- e is devoted to a bibliography of his- orical monographs published by French istorians from 1940 to 1964.-E.L. kinshevich, Leo. Latin America in Soviet Writings; a Bibliography. Robert G. Carl- ton, ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press for the Library of Congress, r1966J. 2v. $15 ea.; $25 the set. Contents: v.1 , 1917-1958; v.2, 1959- 1964. These two volumes supersede and ex- and the bibliography by Leo Okinshevich nd Cecilia Gorokhoff ( Suppl. 4V150) is- ued by the Library of Congress in 1959 nder the same title. The work now in- ludes a total of 8,688 entries, topically ar- anged. Citations are given in translitera- 'on, together with an English translation f the title. The bibliography covers writ- gs in Russian and other languages of the Soviet Union on the "geographical and cul- tural area" of Latin America, and the works of Latin American authors translated irito Russian. Subject matter includes not only politics, but literature and the fine arts as well, thus conveniently bringing together a wide range of material in one source. -B.R. Pearson, James Douglas. Oriental and Asian Bibliography; an Introduction with Some Reference to Africa. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1966. 261p. $7.50. Mr. Pearson's guide is not an extensive bibliography of Asian bibliographies, but rather an introduction to Oriental and Asian bibliography as a whole. It is thus divided into three main sections dealing with ( 1) the producers of the bibliographies; ( 2) the bibliographic controls (both in indigenous and European languages) ; and ( 3) the li- braries housing outstanding collections on these areas. Only ninety pages are devoted to a discussion of the bibliographic tools themselves. The reference works and peri- odicals included deal mainly with the whole Asian continent; area studies are, for the most part, omitted. The work is intended for the librarian or library student in need of a general guide to Oriental bibliography; it is not suited to the needs of the intensive researcher in the field. There are author and subject indexes.-L.B. Wilber, Donald Newton, ed. The Nations of Asia. New York: Hart, r1966J. 605p. il. $15. This is a collection of surveys of twenty- four Asian areas (excluding Asian parts of the Soviet Union) arranged alphabetically. Background essays written by specialists are followed by sections giving general fac- tual and statistical information on political, economic, social and cultural conditions of the individual countries. There are numer- ous illustrations and maps, and a reprint of a Time magazine article on discrimina- tion and discord in Asia serves as a fairly objective introduction to the whole volume. Most of the information, however, can be readily found in encyclopedias and year- books, and it is questionable whether the advantage of having it brought together in this volume altogether justifies the price.- C.S. •• 70 I College & R esearch Libraries • January , 1967 The information he needs is in another library 2000 miles away. But he'll have it in a few minutes. Even the University of Virginia library, one of the major depositories of knowl- edge in the United States, doesn't have everything. But it has supplemented its resources materially by the use of tele- typewriter service. Now, when a firm or individual needs information from a book or journal, the request can be sent to the library which most likely has it. The required informa- tion can be sent back in a few minutes. All major universities and researc centers in Virginia are linked by teletype writer. Any library in the United State with teletypewriter exchange service ca contact any other similarly equippe library to send or receive information. To learn more about how Bell Syste facilities can expand your library facil' ties , contact our Communications Co sultant in the field of education. He's specialist and knows your problems. @AI~