College and Research Libraries 506 I College & Research Libraries· September 1981 Congress subject headings are given: AR- CHITECTURE IN ALBANIA and AL- BANIA-ARCHITECTURE (p.55). The treatment of nonbook materials (chapter 14) muddies the issue of intellectual responsibility in these kinds of materials, and then states typical patterns as if they were rules. An example of this appears in the dis- cussion of "statement of responsibility" (p.166-67). First is the suggestion that the main entry and the statement of responsibil- ity are always the same; second that it is nec- essary to use lengthy statements of responsi- bility to identify "authorship." In fact, while the main entry and the statement of responsi- bility in bibliographic records may fre- quently be the same, the author is confused by the wording in AACR2 that describes what kinds of statements should be given in the statement of responsibility in the case of nonbook materials as opposed to the princi- ples used to ascribe primary responsibility (i.e., determine a main entry). Suggestions for various kinds of added entries are gener- ally good, but the use of the term "corporate author" and the suggestion that an added en- try should be made for the creator of the orig- inal when cataloging a microform are puz- zling. The appendix of exhibits is no less problem- atic. AACR2 and pre-AACR2 treatment is confused; the exhibits contain curious prac- tice and some outright errors. Among the more obvious are: peculiar spacing for the series statement (p.184, example2); incorrect tracing of a series (p.195, example 23); miss- ing relators (p.201, example 36); incorrect capitalization (p.203, example 40); nonstan- dard dates in headings (p.240ff., examples 41-48); and a punctuation error in a uniform title (p.217, example 58). The comparatively adequate introduction to classification in LC and Dewey is over- shadowed by these errors and others and by a barely adequate treatment of automation. This book cannot be recommended. Robert B. Slocum's Sample Cataloguing Forms emphasizes bibliographic description. It is a compendium of cataloging records cho- sen by the author as illustrations of difficult cataloging problems. Examples appear un- der alphabetically arranged captions, which run from "Abridgement of Text" to "Year of Publication" (in the first section on books, pamphlets, and printed sheets). Useful cross- references to captions appear throughout. The system of captions is supplemented by an index. In addition, each used caption con- tains references to specific rules in AACR2 that relate to the examples. The pertinent part of the example is underlined. This third edition of work has been revised to reflect AACR2 in a number of ways. First, the organization parallels that of part one of AACR2. Second, the descriptions and main entries have been formulated using AACR2, as interpreted and applied by Slocum. It is important to realize that timely publication of this work required Slocum to create these examples prior to the implementation of AACR2 in most American libraries. As a result this book must be used with some care. Nevertheless this is the kind of work that is exceedingly useful to practitioners of catalog- ing. The display of "complete" descriptions allows the cataloger to see specific problems solved in a broader context. Some solutions such as the interpolation of information about a pseudonym or the use of expanded collations extend provisions of AACR2. Criti- cal evaluation of examples and judicious ap- plication of solutions is necessary. This work will be valuable to catalogers in academic libraries who deal with a wide va- riety of materials and are frequently con- fronted by these problems. The treatment of material outside the print medium is espe- cially useful to those who only occasionally catalog these kinds of materials. These two titles are among the dozens of titles revised or published as a result of the publication of AACR2 and Dewey 19. Ca- veat emptor.-Nancy R. John, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Maruskin, Albert F. OCLC: Its Governance, Function, Financing, and Technology. Books in Library and Information Science Series, V.32. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1980. 160p. $22.75. LC 80-23417. ISBN 0-824 7-1179-3. I have empathy with the author who at- tempts to research and analyze an entity like OCLC, which is both a recent phenomenon and a moving target. OCLC changes not from decade to decade or year to year but month to month. We must realize, however, that the author has to "stop time" or he would Available July, 1981 1400 pages $175 .00 2 Volumes ISBN 0-88410-852-X Subject and Title Index. INDUSTRIES COVERED: Aerospace • Agriculture • Air Transport • Apparel. Beverages • Broadcasting • Building Materials • Chemicals • Coal • Commercial Banking • Communication s Equipment • Computers • Construction • Drugs and Pharmaceuticals • Electric Power Equipment • Electric Utilities • Electrical and Electronic Equipment. Energy Alternatives. Engineering • Food Processing • Furniture • Gas Utilities • Health and Medical Services • Hotels and Restaurants • Household Appliances • Hydroelectric Power • Insurance • Investment Banking and Finance • Iron and Steel • Leisure Time and Recreation • Machinery and Machine Tools • Medical and Dental Instruments • Metals • Mines and Mineral Resources • MotorTransport • MotorVehicles • Natural Gas • Nuclear Energy • Office Equipment • Packaging • Paint and Coatings • Paper and Paper Products • Petroleum • Photography • Plastics • Printing and Publishing • Railroads • Real Estate • Retail Trade • Scientific and Technical Instruments. Ship- ping • Soaps, Detergents, and Toiletries • Solar Energy • Telecommunications • Textiles • Tire and Rubber • Tobacco • Water Utilities • Wholesale Trade • Wood and Wood Products CONTENTS: Part I: General Reference Sources. Secondary Sources of Information Covering More Than One Industry. Part II: Industry Data Sources. Market Research Studies. Financial and Investment Reports • Statistical Reports from Government and Industry Sources • Directories • Special Issues of Trade Journals • Economic Forecasts • Numeric Databases • Monographs, Working Papers, and Dissertations • Industry Conference Reports. Part Ill: Data Publishers and Producers. Part IV: Subject and Title Index. Do you need marketing or financial information on a product, an industry sector, or an entire industry? HARFAX Directory of Industry Data Sources will provide you- for the first time- with a comprehensive listing of every authoritative source of information on virtually anything you need to know about 60 categories of industries and their products. With HARFAX, you can identify industry sources not adequately described elsewhere, such as market research reports, investment banking studies, special issues of industry journals, and research databases. You can survey the available literature, and determine whether full-text document retrieval is necessary. You can locate over 2500 publishers of industry data with complete address, telephone, and often the name of a contact person. And you can keep in touch with the latest studies, findings, and reports on an industry. Published annually as an adjunct to a comprehensive biblio- graphic database, HARFAX Directory of Industry Data Sources is constantly in the process of being expanded and updated. We expect the Directory oflnd us try Data Sources to quickly become the leading reference on "where to look". for definitive industry information. For more information about the availability of the HARFAX database on-line, contact Anne Fernald at the address below. Available from: BALLINGER PUBLISHING COMPANY Box 281 • 54 Church Street • Cambridge, MA 02138 ------------------- (617) 492-0670 508 I College & Research Libraries • September 1981 still be researching, analyzing, and writing. In this book the author "stops time'' in mid- 1978. OCLC has changed considerably since that time; some of the significant events oc- curring after the covering of this book include the Industrial Revenue Bond sale for over $32 million, the design and building of new facil- ities, a new president, and a new name: OCLC Online Computer Library Center. Basically this book covers the period of OCLC's existence from its beginning as the Ohio College Library Center to its change to a national utility: OCLC, Inc. The author attempts to place the develop- ment of OCLC in the context of the history of library cooperation and resource sharing. Therefore a significant portion of the work deals with the history of library cooperation, beginning with the sharing of resources be- tween the great library at Alexandria and the library at Pergamum in the second century B.C. and continuing to current times. Thus, he sets the stage for the creation of OCLC as a new and powerful tool to facilitate resource sharing and library cooperation. The primary objective of the author is to bring together the mass of material about OCLC and to organize it in a logical order, showing the evolution of this American li- brary institution since its inception in Ohio in 1967. Using both primary and secondary source material, the author succeeds in bring- ing together in one relatively short work an abundant supply of information regarding OCLC. He is not as successful in organizing the material. All too frequently information is repeated or related information is sepa- rated; for example, the composition of the Board of Trustees after the transition to OCLC, Inc., is repeated on two successive pages while discussion of the Ohio College Association's role is split between chapters. Although the author attempts to set OCLC in the context of the total networking envi- ronment, he includes relatively little infor- mation concerning state and multistate net- works, which have been very much a part of OCLC's history and success. He basically re- stricts his comments on that aspect of OCLC to his own network, PRLC. Because the book is very detailed and some parts are elementary, it is a good work for both library science students and practicing librarians with little knowledge of OCLC and resource sharing. For those who are more knowledgeable of the current networking scene, the book provides a concise historical perspective of OCLC.-]oseph F. Boykin, ]r., Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. Cheney, Frances Neel and Williams, Wiley J. Fundamental Reference Sources. 2d ed. Chicago: American Library Assn., 1980. 351p. $12.50. LC 80-21617. ISBN 0-8389- 0308-8. Reference Sources 1980 (V.4). Comp. anded. by S. Balachandran and M. Balachan- dran. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Pierian Pr., 1980. 364p. $65.00. LC 77-79318. ISBN 0-87650-127-7. In scope the second edition of Fundamen- tal Reference Sources does not differ signifi- cantly from the first: selected sources of bibliographical, biographical, linguistic, sta- tistical, and geographic information, pre- sented in that order, with an introductory chapter on the nature of reference and infor- mation service, a unified index to authors, titles, and subjects, and appended guidelines for evaluating atlases, bibliographic refer- ence sources, English-language dictionaries, and general English-language encyclope- dias. The content has been updated by the addition of new titles that appeared (with few exceptions) before June 1979, and the text throughout shows careful revisions rang- ing from restructured overviews of the major categories to such details as the substitution of "our" for "man's" in many phrases and the elimination of the title "Dr." from the names of persons who are not Samuel Johnson. These revisions contribute to a smoother text without altering the work's emphasis (more evident now than in 1971) on traditional forms of reference tools. Databases are cov- ered rather briskly in just over two pages of the section introducing periodical indexing and abstracting services and are scarcely mentioned thereafter; online availability is noted in annotations for PAIS and Index Me- dicus but not for other titles cited earlier as examples. Similarly, although the chapter on sources of statistics includes a new and re- markably technical passage on statistical methods and terminology, it barely alludes to any but conventionally published materials. In short, this book does not and is clearly not