College and Research Libraries 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- terns" are less well interrelated but are worthwhile in themselves. Attempts to answer the question, "What is information science?" in the first section are not successful probably because there still does not exist an information science in the sense that geology is a science. Nevertheless, this section contains Jesse Shera' s excellent article "Of Librarianship, Documentation and Information Science," which in itself justifies the "Background and Philosophy" section. The inclusion of two of the five papers under "Other Areas" may generate ques- tions of classification, for it would appear that H. Borko's "The Analysis and Design of Information Systems" could have been appropriately placed in the second section and B-A Lipitz' "Information Storage and Retrieval" in the third. Missing from the volume is a paper on networks. Maryann Duggan's widely used "Library Network Analysis and Planning (Lib. NAT)" Journal of Library Automa- tum 2:157-75 (Sept. 1969), could have filled this hiatus, but it may have appeared too late for inclusion since the most recent papers in the volume appeared in 1968.- Frederick G. Kilgour, Ohio College Library Center, Columbus. Introduction to Technical Services for Li- brary Technicians. Marty Bloomberg and G. Edward Evans. Littleton, Colo.: Li- braries Unlimited, Inc., 1971. 175p. $7.50. The authors of this book aim "to pro- vide the nonprofessional (library techni- cian, clerk, or part-time help) with a sound background in the basic functions carried out in the technical services area of a library." They have obviously worked in technical services and one of them, Evans, has been a serials librarian and a cataloger. In addition to a solid knowledge of li- brary procedures they also show a good grasp of publishing activities. If Tauber's Technical Services in Libraries is aimed at library school students, Introduction to Technical Services for Library Technicians provides nonprofessionals a close, low- level look at all aspects of technical ser- vices. It does present theory but the major emphasis is on accepted techniques as the authors take one on a step-by-step progress Recent Publications I 241 through the labyrinths of technical services. The book is well organized, the sen- tences simple and easy to read. The whole approach is straightforward and the ex- planation of complex rules is surprisingly lucid and to the point. There are many tables and illustrations of forms and catalog cards. This book will undoubtedly be used largely by people who are not professionals and they will probably follow it the way a neophyte cook follows a cookbook, i.e., as closely as possible. There are many helpful hints in the charts and figures but unfortunately, a few of the examples leave something to be desired. Since the examples furnished will probably be used as models, exactly as shown, they should be correct. For exam- ple, one finds the sentence, "The main en- try would be ·wynar.' " And again, about another book, ·~he entry, therefore is ·ceorge Orwell.' " If the main entry is en- closed in quotation marks the assumption is that it is the full, correct main entry. This being true, in the first instance the main entry should be "Wynar, Bohdan S.," and in the second, "Orwell, George." This would be no problem to an experi- enced librarian but to a beginning library technician it might be an embarrassing pitfall. The binding and physical makeup are good and the book appears sturdy. As a minor irritant one finds the type used in the figures to be the same as in the text in many instances and, since they are sep- arated by very little space, it is sometimes difficult to tell where a figure ends and the text begins. Some figures, "Technical Ser- vice Activities" for instance, are unnum- bered whereas others, "Cataloging Activ- ities" for instance, are numbered. There are a few errors missed by the proofreaders but none of any consequence. The book is full of "tips" to library workers. The authors frequently give back- ground information in addition to explain- ing the bare bones of a particular proce- dure. In explaining this practice the au- thors, while discussing the publishing busi- ness, say, "While the librarian must have this knowledge in order to operate effec- tively, the technician and clerk could op- erate without this knowledge. However, they probably will operate more effective-