College and Research Libraries 288 I College & Research Libraries • May 1979 they may have improved service. It is from this point that librarians should begin their deliberations and negotiations for computer systems-and use the rest of these proceed- ings along the way.-Fay Zipkowitz, Wor- cester Area Cooperating Libraries , Worces- ter , Massachusetts . Howell , J. B., ed. Special Collections in Li- braries of the Southeast. With an in- troduction by Frances N eel Cheney. Jackson , Miss. : Published for the South- eastern Library Association by Hawick House, 1978. 423p. $15. (Available from Southeastern Library Association, P.O. Box 987 , Tucker , GA 30084.) There are several surprises in this new survey of special collections in libraries of the Southeast; at least, there were for me. I might have expected to find a large collec- tion of books on furniture in High Point , North Carolina, but I did not know that the South Asia collection of about .100,000 vol- umes at the University of Virginia is "the most complete collection of this kind of rna- terial in the world." I knew that the Keene- land Association in Lexington, Kentucky , has a splendid collection relating to the breeding and racing of thoroughbred horses, but I was surprised to learn that the Uni- versity of Miami has more than 130,000 vol~mes of Soviet imprints , most of them after 1960, along with complete or substan- tial files of 500 Soviet periodicals. Special Collections in Libraries of th e Southeast is a fascinating guide to research collections in Alabama , Florida, Georgia , Kentucky , Mississippi , North Carolina , South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia , and West Virginia. It is arranged in outline form , alphabetically by state and then al- phabetically by city, with most of the 2,022 collections described in just a few lines. An index by owning institution and another by subject give easy access to the outline , al- though the absence of running titles makes it difficult to know where you are , geo- graphically. Local history , church archives , genealogi- cal records , Confederate imprints , Civil Midwest Library Service's University Press Selection Plan Offers a Big Extra! It's a Pre-Publication Catalog This catalog is the only one of its kind in our industry and by using it a librarian can MONITOR University Press Publishing. The catalog is pro- duced twice a year in a revised, updated form. It's still another example of how we attempt to anticipate a library ' s needs and to offer ser- vices accordingly. For more information on this plan. call us on our Toll-Free WATS Line 1-800-325-8833 Missouri Customers Call Collect: 0-314-739-3100 Ask for Mr. Lesser " 19 Years of Service to College and University Libraries" Midwest Library Service 11443 St. Charles Rock Rd., Bridgeton, Mo. 63044 War diaries, and plantation journals and ac- count books are collected throughout the Southeast, from major universities and state historical societies to the smallest public li- brary. The index contains 111 references to black collections, many with a special em- phasis, such as slavery, lynching, civil rights , Seventh-Day Adventists, folklore, literature, and the arts. Local industry , agencies, and organiza- tions have produced several important col- lections . Maxwell Air Force Base , in Alabama, has the country's largest collection of material relating to airpower and to the history of military aviation in the United States. There are collections on tobacco in Winston-Salem, hydraulics in Vicksburg, and golf in Lake Park, Florida, the head- quarters of the Professional Golfers Associa- tion of America, while the lumber industry can be studied in collections in Alabama, Mississippi , and North Carolina. The University of Miami and the Univer- sity of Florida , as we look even farther south , have established major collections re- lating to the Caribbean, especially Cuba, Haiti , and the Dominican Republic . Florida State University has about 10,000 items re- lating to Napoleon and the French Revolu- tion , and Duke University has more than 90,000 books and pamphlets of Italian litera- ture , including the library of Guido Maz- zoni , a Florentine scholar. In the Belknap Collection of the Performing Arts , the Uni- versity of Florida has half a million pieces including posters , programs, and photo- graphs concerning theater , dance , opera , and film performances. Is this a useful guide? Definitely , in my opinion . In addition to alerting local scholars to the resources of their own re- gion, in addition to the brief but helpful in- ventories of the major state and university libraries , it is one more index to put before scholars looking for information about Fred- erick Delius, Jean Giono, utopian com- munities , Judaica, Tibet, dime novels , the history of medicine , and Princess Augusta Sophia' s collection of English plays.- Marjorie G. Wynne , Yale University , New Haven , Connecticut. Taylor, Betty W ., e d. Audio Research in the Law. Series 1: Basic American Law. Recent Publications I 289 Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Condyne/Trans- Media Distributing Corp. , 1978. l v . (280p. ) + 4 cassettes. $65 . LC 78-66385. ISBN 0-91338-33-8 . It is no secret around law schools that , for the new law student, the legal literature might be likened to the Book of Seven Seals and that learning its particular and unique features, a necessity for every lawyer, pre- sents a formidable hurdle. It is also com- monly known that the successful teaching of legal research has confounded many a law teacher and law librarian. Therefore it is not surprising that many of them are engaged in a perpetual search for better methods to impart the lore of researching the law and to instruct students as successfully and pain- lessly as is possible in the " tools " of their trade-the law books . This publication is the result of such an effort. It has been styled on the museum- tour type of program , the editor informs us. It consists of a plastic three-ring binder con- taining a soft-cover booklet (offset printing) and four audio tapes . The tapes are stored inside the front cover where there are cavities for two more tape cassettes. One will be forthcoming from the publishers at an additional $15 and covers U.S. govern- ment documents; the other, it is suggested, could contain a cassette on the legal mate- rials on one's home state and would have to be homemade . The pamphlet contains , after a first chap- ter with an "Introduction to the American Legal System ," seven chapters on the basic, generally recognized units of the legal bibli- ography . They are (2) dictionaries , encyclo- pedias , periodicals ; (3) treatises , practice books, looseleafs , directories; (4) case law and digests ; (5) annotated reports; (6) statu- tory laws; (7) administrative law; and (8) citators . These chapters have been written by the set's editor and six other law librarians and vary, as is to be expected , greatly in qual- ity. The overly ambitious scope of the in- troductory chapter overcrowds the few pages to the point of incorrectness . At the end of each chapter the specific pertinent law books are listed , and the stu- dent is directed to bring them together and review them while following the instructions provided on the audiotape . For instance ,