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used. However, two noticeable omissions 
might be considered, especially for reviews 
of databases: Database Review and the 
"Sources" section of R Q. 

A good contribution to the small group of 
basic introductions to online searching, this 
is a recommended text for general training or 
for reference use, particularly for the British 
perspective. It does not however replace ven-
dor or database manuals for those conduct-
ing specific online searches.-Danuta A. 
Nitecki, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign. 

Olson, Nancy B. Cataloging of Audiovisual 
Materials. Mankato, Minn.: Minnesota 
ScholarlyPr., 1981. 154p. $17.50. LC 79-
83907. ISBN 0-933474-07-5. 
This work is "designed to accompany 

AACR2." It is intended for catalogers to use 
as a reference when working with the more 
specialized types of nonbook material and is 
not a "stand alone" guide for media catalog-
ing. 

Examples and notes on the cataloging of 
nonmusic sound recordings, motion pictures 

Recent Publications I 255 

and video recordings, graphic materials, 
realia, kits, and original microform publica-
tions are presented in the order in which 
their cataloging rules are found in AACR2. 
Cataloging notes provide the corresponding 
AACR2 rule number, making it easy to refer 
from the code to the manual and vice versa. 
Each example is illustrated by a photograph 
of the item, a particularly good idea that en-
ables the cataloger to see the material under 
discussion. Although the examples are few in 
number, they are well chosen and provide a 
good sampling of the more unusual media 
problems a cataloger may encounter, such as 
cannonballs and unique audio formats. 

The most frequently encountered types of 
nonbook material, music sound recordings 
and microform reproductions of previously 
published material are not discussed in this 
volume. This would appear to be a major 
weakness. The author may believe that cata-
logers are more accustomed to dealing with 
this type of material, and the problems en-
countered will only be with the more esoteric 
types of material-with which this book 
deals. But, reference should have been made 

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to other sources explaining additional types 
of media cataloging. A bibliography of read-
ings or additional sources is not provided. 

A most valuable feature of this manual is 
the second appendix where the previously 
presented examples are shown in MARC 
tagged format. Few other tools provide this 
type of example and many catalogers will 
welcome this feature. 

The book also contains an overview of 
problems in the cataloging, processing, and 
storage of nonbook materials, as well as a de-
scription of procedures in use at Mankato 
State University, where its author is located. 

The manual will be most useful to the cat-
aloger unfamiliar with media cataloging, the 
library just beginning to acquire media in 
many varied formats, and the student. The 
reader will find the work a good, basic intro-
duction to media cataloging and the prob-
lems it may present. Library school profes-
sors should look closely at this title for 
possible adoption as a text for cataloging 
classes.-Andrew Lisowski, George Wash-
ington University Library, judith A. Ses-
sions, Mt. Vernon College Library, Wash-
ington, D.C. 

McCrimmon, Barbara. Power, Politics and 
Print: The Publication of the British M u-
seum Catalogue, 1881-1900. Hamden, 
Conn.: Shoe String/Linnet, 1981. 186p. 
$17.50. LC 80-28124. ISBN 0-208-01874-
3. 
To any librarian who has been engaged in 

the organization and publication of a mas-
sive catalog, Barbara McCrimmon's Power, 
Politics and Print suggests striking historical 
parallels to his or her own past labor. To 
American librarians it will also be a reveal-
ing demonstration of the characteristically 
close-working relations between the highest 
levels of the government of the United King-
dom and the nation's principal cultural insti-
tutions, such as the British Museum and the 
British Library. 

I had much to do with the publication of 
the National Union Catalog: Pre-1956 Im-
prints in this country and something to do 
with "GK 3," the general catalog of the Brit-
ish Museum Library (since 1972 a part of the 
newly formed British Library), published 
between 1959 and 1966. From the back-
ground of these experiences I have read this 
book with special appreciation for the clarity 

of its presentation of the long history of the 
production of "GK 1," the first general cata-
log of that great library. 

The author has described vividly the pro-
tracted task of publishing "G K 1," which was 
finally completed in 1900 after decades of 
struggle. Its 37 4 volumes containing several 
million entries comprised by far the most am-
bitious bibliographic publication ever at-
tempted up to that time. Because it opened 
the holdings of one of the world's greatest re-
search libraries to scholars everywhere, it 
was a monumental British contribution to 
the world of learning. 

Though "the British literary public clam-
ored for a printed catalogue of the British 
Museum library" through much of the nine-
teenth century, it was not until1881 that ac-
tual printing commenced. This critical point 
in the story was the culmination of four dec-
ades of planning and of "frustration and con-
tention, of small steady victories over inertia, 
and of a final triumph that came too late for 
celebration." Principal credit for the dogged 
persistence and occasional resort to subter-
fuge and artful stratagem-without which 
the enterprise could never have succeeded-
goes to Sir Edward Bond, principal librarian 
(i.e., director) of the British Museum, and 
Richard Garnett, keeper of printed books 
and general editor of the catalog. Dr. Mc-
Crimmon describes their determined efforts 
in a fascinating tale. 

One of the main attractions of Power, Pol-
itics, and Print is the skillful way the author 
places the drama of the catalog's evolution in 
the political and administrative context of 
the period. The parts played, for instance, by 
Gladstone and Disraeli, both long-time 
trustees of the museum, and repeatedly 
prime ministers and chancellors of the Ex-
chequer, are admirably developed. Dr. Mc-
Crimmon makes a lively tale of the endless 
skirmishing among the librarians, between 
Edward Bond and the trustees, and between 
the trustees and treasury officials upon 
whom the museum depended for its financial 
support. Although all this happened a cen-
tury ago, it will be engrossing reading for 
present-day librarians who work with facul-
ties, university administrators, committees 
of all shapes and sizes, government officials, 
and other individuals of every variety. 

This entertaining book is effectively writ-
ten, refreshingly free of jargon, and uncom-