College and Research Libraries Selected Reference Books of 1991-92 Eileen Mcilvaine • his· article follows the pattern set by the semiannual series in- itiated by the late Constance M. Winchell more than thirty years ~go and continued by Eugene Sheehy. Be- cause the purpose of the list is to present a selection of recent scholarly and general works of interest to reference workers in university libraries, it does not pretend to be either well balanced or comprehensive. A brief roundup of new editions of standard works, new titles in series already con- sidered reference, and pieces received on continuations orders is provided at the end of the article. Code numbers (such as AD540 and CJ331) have been used to refer to titles in the Guide to Reference Books, 10th ed., (Chicago: American Library Assn., 1986) or to the Supplement . . . Covering Materials from 1985-1990 (Chicago: 1992). NATIONAL BIBUOGRAPHIES CUO: catalogo dei libri italiani dell'Ottocento (1801-1900)/Catalogue of Nineteenth Cen- tury Italian Books. Milano: Ed. Bibliogra- fica, [1991]. 19v. L6,500,000. CUO is a catalog of nineteenth-cen- tury books published in Italy and Ticino, the Italian-speaking canton of Switzer- land. There were some earlier general catalogs of Italian books such as Attilio Pagliaini's Catalogo generale della libreria italiana dall'anno 1847 a tutto il 1899 (Guide AA905) and a publication of the Austrian censorship office: Elenco delle opere stampate e pubblicate in Milano e nelle provincie lombarde (1815-1847), on which this publication is partially based. CUO contains more than double the number of titles in those earlier compilations. The bibliography includes not only books proper but also pamphlets and fascicles longer than twelve pages. Ex- cluded are texts not in Greek or Roman alphabets, periodical publications from academies, corporations, societies and institutes, offprints, laws, decrees and ordinances, administrative publications of local governments and associations, legal papers, sales catalogs, cartography, and music without text. In total, it lists 420,898 publications, giving the location of titles in Italian public and university libraries. Only one library location is listed for each title, so this catalog has a limited usefulness as a union catalog. If the title is in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence, this library is given as the location; if not, a library in the region where the book was published or printed is given. There are some titles in the list without any loca- tion: works found only in bibliographies. The bibliography is divided into three parts: (1) author /title catalog, listing works alphabetically by author, or by title for anonymous and corporate authors and works by more than three authors; (2) a list by publisher or printer, showing works chronologically arranged by year and then by author; (3) place of publication ar- ranged alphabetically by region and town, then by year and, within the year, by author. The index is by secondary author (editors, translators, authors of prefaces, illustrators and composers) with cross-ref- erence to the principal author and a brief Eileen Mcilvaine is Head of Collections and Reference in the Humanities and History Division, .Columbia University Libraries, New York 10027. Although it appears under a byline, this list is a project of the reference departments of Columbia University Libraries, and notes are signed with the initials of one of the following staff members: Kathe D. Chipman, Avery Library; Mary Cargill, Beth Juhl, Robert H. Scott, Sarah Spurgin, Junko Stuveras, Butler Library; Olha della Cava, School of Library Service Library; Elizabeth A. Davis, Music Library; Leigh Hallingby, Psychology Library. 415 416 College & Research Libraries title. The index ends with a geographical list of publishers and printers.-J.S. ABBREVIATIONS Zalucky, Heruy K Compressed Russian: Russian-English Dictionary of Acronyms, Semiacronyms and Other Abbreviations Used in Contemporary Standard Russian with Tizeir Pronunciation and Explicit Correlates in Russian, and Equivalents in English. Amsterdam, New York: Elsevier, 1991. 890p. (ISBN 0444987282). LC 90-42785. The march of bureaucracy and tech- nology through the twentieth century has left in its wake a burgeoning popu- lation of acronyms and abbreviations. In this field of human endeavor, probably no other modem society has been as pro- ductive as the former Soviet Union. (It will be interesting to see how fully the tradition is continued in the various successor states of that empire.) A dic- tionary to assist in decoding these ellip- tical structures has thus always been an essential reference tool for any student of Russian or Soviet affairs. The latest such guide for the perplexed is offered by this work compiled by Henry K. Zalucky in the United States, printed in Poland, and published in Amsterdam. With slightly fewer than forty thousand entries, it provides a key to a host of shortened forms of the Russian names of domestic and foreign government bo- dies, political parties, economic enter- prises, educational and research institutions, archives, journals, units of measurement, countries, languages, concepts, substances, machines, etc. The material has been compiled largely from Soviet printed sources, with a particular debt to the third edition of D. I. Alek- seev's Slovar' sokrashchenii russkogo iazyka (Guide AD672). The author has aimed primarily to include those forms in current usage, but many terms of his- toric significance, particularly the names of earlier political organizations and state institutions, are provided as well, along with some indication of the period of their existence. While the dictionary is designed above all for use by students and special- ists, pains have been taken to accommo- September 1992 date the needs of a more general Russian-language readership as well. In- dividual entries include a guide to pro- nunciation where needed (e.g., to indicate whether an acronym is pro- nounced as if it were a single word or whether it is spelled out), a full Russian- language version of the abbreviated term, a translation into English, and, where appropriate, notes indicating such things as the field in which a term is used, geographical location, or histori- cal period. Where the same acronym is used for several different terms, each in- stance is treated as a separate entry, and the terms are arranged in alphabetical order of their full Russian-language equivalent. The brief supplementary list of abbreviations, several tables of sym- bols and units of measures such as a table of Roman numerals, a Roman-al- phabet listing of chemical elements, and a list of the caloric and nutritional con- tent of various foods are clearly aimed at the general Russian-language reader. Inevitably, comparisons are likely to be made with another work issued by the same publisher just six years ago- Dictionary of Russian Abbreviations, com- piled by Edgar Scheitz in the -German Democratic Republic (Suppl. AD154). Curiously, this work does not figure in Zalucky's list of lexicographical sources. While both works report that they con- tain about 40,000 abbreviations, the ear- lier work in fact covers much more material, since it groups all the terms designated by a single acronym under the same entry. It does not, however, provide English translations. Naturally, too, as a work produced in a country that was at that time still firmly ensconced in the Warsaw Pact, it does,not, in contrast to the Zalucky work, include such popular terms beyond the bounds of official Soviet sensibility as zek [labor camp in- mate], tamizdat [emigre literature], or porno [pornography]. In addition, of course, it is slightly more out-of-date than Zalucky's volume. Probably any library with a seriou_s Russian reference coverage will want to add this new dictionary to its collection, although neither this book, nor probably any printed reference, can possibly pre- tend to genuine currency in today's fast- changing Russia. An increasing number of the names and even many of the insti- tutions listed in this 1991 publication are now history, and one would search it in vain to decipher the acronyms for the country itself (RF for the Russian Federa- tion or SNG for the Commonwealth of Independent States), let alone the host of new names and agencies springing up to replace those of an earlier age.-R.H.S. LIBRARIANS HIP Directory of Ethnic Professionals in US (Li- brary and Information Science). Comp. George C. Grant. Winter Park, Fla.: FOUR-G Publ., 1991. 254p., 60p. $52.95 (ISBN 0-962542324). LC 90-85845. The Directory of Ethnic Professionals in LIS includes biographical sketches of sixteen hundred deceased, retired, or currently employed African-American library and information science pro- fessionals. The Directory was born out of the compiler's frustration with the ina- bility to locate information about black librarians in national, regional, and pro- fessional biographical sources. He has, however, extended his coverage to "all ethnic librarians," and whereas the in- clusion of a number of professionals of Chinese American, Japanese American, Hispanic, Mexican American, and Na- tive American heritage is under- standable, the extension of the work to include some foreign librarians working in their native countries, such as Ghana, Senegal, or the Philippines, seems out of scope for an American ethnic librarians' directory. The Directory is arranged alphabeti- cally by last name, and one index lists entrants by employer I alma mater. In content the entries parallel closely those in ALA's two-volume Directory of Library and Information Professionals/DUP (Suppl. AB39) including, not only the name, ethnic heri- tage, and current employer of each person listed but also information about his/her career, educational background, pub- lications, and subject/ consulting exper- tise. Although the DUP is a much more comprehensive work, containing some Selected Reference Books 417 forty-three thousand entries, only about 25 percent of the entries in the Directory of Ethnic Professional duplicate those in the DUP. This mass of new biographical data for a category of professionals un- derrepresented in standard biographical dictionaries of the library pro- fession is reason enough for purchasing this refer- ence tool, which the compiler hopes to expand in subsequent editions.-O.dC. RELIGION The Coptic Encyclopedia. Aziz S. Atiya, ed. in chief. New York: Macmillan, [1991]. 8v. (2372, 371 p.) $900 (ISBN 002897025X). LC 90-23448. Most of us know little about the Copts or their contributions to the history of Egypt and to the development of Chris- tianity. As Lola Atiya writes in the fore- word to the Encyclopedia, "It [the Coptic period] falls between the glamour of Pharaonic Egypt and the stupendous surge of Islam that swept the world." However, Coptic civilization remains a key component of both the language and landscape of modern Egypt and the spir- itual and ritual foundations of the Chris- tian church. This eight-volume set treats the people and culture, centered in Egypt, Nubia/Sudan, and Ethiopia. Coptic civili- zation began with the preaching of the evangelist Mark to the citizens of Alex- andria in the first century A.D., reached the height of its influence in the third century, and declined-but endured- through over sixteen hundred years of Byzantine and Arab dominance. This project, originally conceived in the 1950s by Professor Aziz Atiya, author of wide- ranging studies of Eastern Christianity and Coptic civilization, and his col- leagues in the Higher Institute of Coptic Studies, was begun in earnest in 1979 and completed after twelve years and the contributions of over two hundred scholars. The twenty-three hundred signed en- tries in these volumes range in length from a few sentences ("Archangel") to a dozen or more pages ("Saints"); all in- clude bibliographies, some of which are quite extensive. Most articles are by well-known authorities in the field, such 418 College & Research Libraries as P. M. Fraser writing on Alexandria, Bruce Metzger on papyri, and Elaine Pagels on texts from the Nag Hammadi Library. Many entries include black-and- white illustrations or photographs, maps, diagrams, or tables: the article on the Cop- tic religious calendar, for example, pre- sents a seventeen page list of saints' days and feasts. In addition to entries cover- ing historical and cultural persons and topics, there are also biographical sketches of coptologists, archeologists, and theologians, as well as portraits of prominent Copts in modern Egypt. Par- ticularly useful to the generalist are the concise and comprehensive discussions of specific monasteries, archeological sites, or other topics which are otherwise available only in (sometimes obscure) non-English publications, e.g., "Karnak in the Christian Period." The wide variety of subjects addressed testifies to the wide- spread influence of Coptic civilization. Alongside articles treating the Roman bureaucracy in Egypt or the development of Christian wedding customs, one finds discussions of the development of the codex book and bookbinding techniques and, following a cross-reference from the Book of Kells, a study of Coptic elements in Irish art and monasticism. Cross-references to related subjects are indicated within the text. One needs the excellent index to locate some articles filed under confusing or unlikely head- ings (e.g., Saint Catherine's Monastery is under "Mount Sinai ... "). An annoying feature of the index is its use of page rather than volume numbers in refer- ences, though volumes and correspond- ing page numbers are provided at the bottom of each index page. Besides the index, Volume 8 also includes twelve maps and a lengthy appendix on the Coptic language, with entries on topics such as alphabets, etymology, dialects, and paleography. Volume 1 provides a general bibliography. At $900, The Coptic Encyclopedia is not an automatic purchase for any library, but its unique focus and depth will fill a real lacuna in reference publishing and will satisfy students and scholars in fields ranging from archeology to theology.-B.J. September 1992 Encyclopedia of the Early Church. Comp. Institutum Patristicum Augustini- anum and ed. Angelo di Berardino; tr. from the Italian by Adrian Walford; with a foreword and bibliographic amendments by W. H. C. Frend. New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1992.2 v. $175 (ISBN 0-19-520-892-7). LC 91-23934. This two-volume encyclopedic guide to the first seven or eight centuries of Christianity is a translation of an Italian work, Dizionario patristico e di antichittl cristiane, originally published between 1983 and 1988 (Guide BB310). Repre- senting the collective efforts of a team of 167 scholars from seventeen different countries (although nearly half of them represent scholarly institutions in Rome), it covers an impressive range of topics relating to the history, geography, the- ology, philosophy, literature, languages, terminology, liturgy, art, architecture, archeology, and rna terial culture of the early church from its origins until the middle of the eighth century. Consider- able attention is also devoted to heresies, Gnosticism, Judaism, and the culture and philosophy of classical antiquity. An impressive effort has been made to pro- vide coverage of the whole of the Chris- tian world, from Mauritania to Persia, from Ireland to Aksum. Finally, a special emphasis on the biography makes this a rich source of information even on many lesser-known figures. The individual entries, ranging from one or two paragraphs to five or six pages in length, are often accompanied by substantial bibliographies of sources and major secondary works, updated by Frend for this English-language edition. Adrian Walford's translation from the Italian reads clearly and smoothly, and a well-designed layout, numerous cross- references, and an extensive index facil- itate use of this work. Included at the end of the text are a chronological table, forty-four maps, and over three hundred illustrations, some in color. The Encyclopedia is an outstanding contribution to the English-language lit- erature in a field that certainly has not lacked for coverage in the past. It belongs in any serious research or col- lege-level collection attempting to pro- vide coverage in the areas of Chris- tian- ity,late antiquity, or Western civilization in general. Its appearance comes close on the heels of the very similarly named Ency- clopedia of Early Christianity (New York: Garland, 1990), reviewed in an earlier issue of this column, but the differences between these two works are consider- able. While the Garland volume is de- signed primarily for the nonspecialist, this work, given the depth and quality of its treatment, promises to be a regular source of reference for the specialist (al- though it will serve as a valuable intro- duction for the general reader as well). The breadth of coverage is also much greater in the volume under review here: it contains more than twice as many ar- ticles, covers a longer time period, and addresses a broader range of issues. In those cases where both provide an article on the same subject, the Oxford volume is usually (though not always) more detailed in its coverage. To be sure, there are some areas where the Garland volume provides fuller coverage or at least more ready access: two notable ex- amples are its entries on individual canonical and uncanonical scriptural works and its occasional articles on mod- ern scholars who have contributed sig- nificantly to the study of the early church. Finally, the Encyclopedia of Early Christianity includes valuable additional bibliographic references on many topics. Ideally, it would be good to have both, but if one could have only one, the Ency- clopedia of the Early Church is clearly the superior choice.-R.H.S. Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, John Obert Voll, and John L. Esposito. The Contem- porary Islamic Revival: A Critical Survey and Bibliography. Bibliographies and In- dexes in Religious Studies, 20. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1991. 230p. (ISBN 0313247196). LC 91-12618. The bibliography, which contains three essays and a bibliography on the Islamic resurgence, includes 1,225 books and ar- ticles and is classed by geographic area, except for the chapter "General Studies," Selected Reference Books 419 which is divided into three parts: Inter- pretive Studies, Economics, and Women. Entries for books and some articles are annotated. The cited articles are drawn from over one hundred journals in Islamic and area studies. The indexes are by author, title, and subject. The subject index includes personal and place names, organizations, and broad topics. The subject index is unfortunately not very helpful. Since the organization of the bibliography is by country and con- tinent, a good, nongeographic topical index would have been useful. Some index terms such as development are too vague to be useful. Egypt has sixty-six items, and some of the same items are repeated on the same page under "Egyp- tian history," "Egyptian nationalism," etc. A reorganization of the subject index would much enhance the usefulness of the bibliography.-J.S. Jewish-American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Jack Fischel and San- ford Pinsker. Garland Reference Li- brary of the Social Sciences, 429. New York: Garland, 1992. 710p. (ISBN 0- 82406622-7). LC 91-14188. In recent years, librarians have been nearly overwhelmed by an alarming array of specialized subject bibliogra- phies; the past few seasons have seen the publication of bibliographies on the his- tory, religion, literature, theater, and film of Jews in the United States. Unfortunately, there was no comprehensive source for locating brief information on different aspects of Jewish-American life. Happily, Jewish-American History and Culture reme- dies this situation quite nicely, aiming to combine a "celebration" of the extraordi- nary richness of Jewish-American culture with "the sober judgments of scholarship, analysis, and critical detachment" (pre- face). The result is such a fascinating, compendious resource that reference de- partments will have difficulty in decid- ing where to place this volume; it could find a place in American history, re- ligion, biography, popular culture, or several other sections. This encyclopedia presents signed topi- cal essays and biographical sketches, most 420 College & Research Libraries with bibliographies, arranged in alpha- betical order, and followed by a general index. An introductory table lists all ar- ticles under a series of main themes or subjects so that readers may find other entries on similar topics. These main themes, which give an idea of the scope of coverage, include arts, biographies, economics, history, humanities, Jewish organizations, libraries, literary biogra- phies and studies, media and communica- tions, military, Nobel Prize, political theory, pop culture, religion and religious theories, science, and social sciences. The editors have deliberately excluded some topics, such as foods or stereotypes, feeling that such materials had been adequately covered elsewhere, and that "there was little profit, and a possible danger, in confusing the trivial with the decidedly more important'' (introduction). Much of the information presented here would be difficult to locate without a lot of effort and a very large reference collection. Articles cover topics as diverse as agriculture and American attitudes toward Ethiopian Jews and include lists of all Jewish-American Nobel Prize winners as well as addresses and descriptions of American libraries with extensive Judaica collections. Recommended for all research collections.-B.J. MYTHOLOGY Bell, Robert E. Women of Classical My- thology: A Biographical Dictionary. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, [1991 ]. 462p. $49 (ISBN 0-874365813). LC 91-26649. Students already have Robert Bell to thank for two other works on classical mythology, Place Names in Classical My- thology (Suppl. CF1 0) and Dictionary of Clas- sical Mythology (Guide CF23). His latest work provides twenty-six hundred bio- graphical sketches of goddesses, nymphs, and mortals, many of whom are too ob- scure or peripheral to appear in other dictio-naries of mythology. Entries range in length from a sentence to several hundred words; most include references to classical sources. Longer essays for principal deities (e.g., Artemis) provide lists of birthplace(s), lovers/ consorts, children, principal places of worship, September 1992 sacred attributes, companions, and epi- thets. Cult titles or epithets make up a significant proportion of the shorter en- tries (e.g., "Glaucopis" for Athena). Though some readers may be put off by the oc- casionally flashy prose style (for example, references to mythological character's "sex lives" or a description of Hera as "coad- dictive"), entries present fairly full infor- mation. One small quibble is Bell's failure to indicate which ancient authors provide us with which variants of myths and whose story he prefers. Major cross-references are indicated in the text by capital letters, but the careful reader will find many additional related articles by checking other names men- tioned in the course of an entry. An ap- pendix, ''The Men in Their Lives," lists male characters which figure in the main text; thus, by checking "Romulus" in the appendix, one can eventually find the name of the she-wolf who nursed the Roman twins. However, without a general index, Women of Classical My- thology will, to a certain extent, only serve those who already know the name of the mythological figure for whom they need information. To locate a list of all the characters associated with the Acropolis or all those goddesses who protect women in childbirth, one needs to consult Bell's other works.-B.J. Recent Studies in Myths and Literature, 1970-1990: An Annotated Bibliography. Co~p. Bernard Accardi (and others). Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature, 29. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1991. 251 p. $45 (ISBN 0- 313-27545-9). LC 91-18070. This bibliography in part attempts to inquire into post-modernist influences on the study of literature in relation to myths. Primarily compiled for scholars of Anglo-American literature, the bibliog- raphy is divided into sections such as theory and themes, classical literature, British and American literature by time period. Within the time period, the ar- rangement is by subject and author. All entries are accompanied by notes from one line to nearly half a page in length. Some English translations of foreign works are included; however, disserta- tions and book review are not. The index is by author (of books and articles) and subject, such as literary authors, mytho- logical figures, themes, and scholars of mythology.-J.S. van Keuren, Frances Dodds. Guide toRe- search in Classical Art and Mythology. Chicago: American Library Assn., 1991. 307p. $35 (ISBN 0838905641). LC 91-11122. Beginning students, as well as scholars and librarians who have never had the time or inclination to develop a firm grip on the complex and confusing array of bibliographies, dictionaries, cat- alogs, and site reports from the fields of classical archeology, art, mythology, and iconography, should be grateful to Pro- fessor van Keuren for this new guide. Her book takes the form of a narrative bibliography in seventeen chapters, each of which discusses one or two major works in a specific field, covering the nature of research in that discipline and the organization and uses of the work in question. Following these major works are essays on and bibliographies of com- plementary reference works, handbooks, and additional sources. These chapters are grouped into three main sections: "General Research," which includes chapters on Greek, . Etruscan, and Roman art and archeology; "Mythology," which in- cludes chapters on myth and ancient art, literature and iconography, as well as portrayals of myth in later art and litera- ture; and "Media Studies," which treats individual art forms, from sculpture and vase painting to interior decorating and numismatics.' Author-title and subject indexes complete the volume. Particularly helpful are Professor van Keuren' s remarks on the currency and utility of certain works and on the con- troversy surrounding specific topics as well as her suggestions on how one might proceed in a research project after consulting one of these reference tools. English titles are provided for many for- eign works, helping readers to identify in advance which German sources may be pertil:'ent to their interests. Though Selected Reference Books 421 librarians are not the primary audience for this work, many will benefit from the lengthy descriptions of the scope and organization of important sources, such as Beazley's catalogs of Athenian vases or the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Over- all, the Guide to Research in Classical Art and Mythology is a good introduction for the novice and a perfect refresher course for the more advanced scholar.-B.J. LITERATURE Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. George Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger. New York: HarperCollins, [1991]. 1,176p. $45 (ISBN 0-062-70027-8). LC 91-55001. Although the name echoes the new title of Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia (Suppl. BD24), this is in fact a revision of Max Herzberg's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature (Guide BD408); the new title reflects a change in publisher, not the posthumous involvement of Wil- liam Rose Benet. Like its predecessor, this compilation claims to be "the most comprehensive one-volume reference book in its field" (preface), and it has many more entries than the Oxford Companion to American Literature (Guide BD407), though the lat- ter work does have information not pro- vided in Benet's. The new edition has retained many of the original entries, revised or elimi- nated others, and added some twenty- five hundred new headings "in response to contemporary critical perspectives." Many of the evaluative comments in the earlier edition have been dropped, leav- ing its flavor somewhat bland: the refer- ence to "Owen Wisteria" is gone, as is Hemingway's description of Huckleberry Finn. The new edition has added entries on major Canadian and Latin American writers, many taken from Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia. It has longer, signed essays of general topics, which provide a useful overview of major trends in American literature, but some of the essays lack subtlety. One essay opines that ''before the 1970's ~veryone knew what the classics of American literature were supposed to be" (p.327). The entry on Longfellow, 422 College & Research Libraries however, has a good description of the fluctuation of his reputation. The new edition is very useful for its entries on current American literature, but libraries will want to keep the first edition.-M.C. Fenwick, M. J. Writers of the Caribbean and Central America: A Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1992. 2v. $200 (ISBN 0-8240-4010-4). LC 91-35701. Although this bibliography of pri- mary works includes significantly more writers than are included in other recent bibliographies of Caribbean and Central American authors, the citations are often so incomplete that tracing the cited work would be difficult if not impossible. Writ- ers are arranged alphabetically by country of origin, and each entry lists birth and death dates (if known), literary form, and books (giving only dates, not place or publisher), followed by work published in serials or anthologies. This last section is the most frustrating because the cita- tions do not include the titles of the short / stories, plays, or poems, and give only the title of the journal and the year that the journal was published. No issue date or page number is provided. (Often only the title of a journal is listed with no other information.) Works published in anthologies fare slightly better. Although the title of the work is not included, the editor, title, and date of the anthology are usually provided. The volumes are in- dexed by writer only. Despite its considerable limitations- it can't be used to find a poem, short story, or play, no works are included after about 1988, and some citations pro- vide only the title of a newspaper-this bibliography could still be useful to li- braries with significant collections in Caribbean literature.-S.S. Hawthorn, Jeremy. A Glossary of Contem- porary Literary Theory. London: E. Ar- nold, (dist. in United States by Routledge, Chapman and Hall, New York), 1992. 282p. $49.95 (ISBN 0340539127). LC 91-32095. This glossary of literary terms offers substantial explanations of terms fre- September 1992 quently used by recent literary critics and theoreticians, roughly covering the time period since 1970. As such, it is a valuable supplement to other dictionar- ies of literary terms, for example, M. H. Abrams, Glossary of Literary Terms (Guide BD31) and Hugh Holman, Handbook to Literature (Guide BD39). The entries in the glossary are longer than the usual entries in other dictionar- ies of literary terms and read more like short essays on literary criticism. Quota- tions from original sources help to eluci- date the meaning of a term. Related terms are grouped together and exten- sively cross-referenced. The additional matter includes a list of key terms by critical school (p.xii-xv) and a bibliogra- phy of reference sources (p.xv-xvii), and a list of quoted works (p.269-82).-J.S. MUSIC Gooch, Bryan N. S. and David Thatcher. A Shakespeare Music Catalogue. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991. 5v. (2,847p.). $635 (ISBN 0-19-812359-0). LC 89-9270. Contents: v.1-3, The catalogue of music; v.4, Indices; v.5, Bibliography. This catalog is a thorough compilation containing 21,362 compositions of pub- lished and unpublished original music related to Shakespeare's literary work, composed from his day through 1987. Volumes 1 through 3 contain the cata- log, beginning with the plays presented alphabetically by title. Volume 3 includes the sonnets, listed numerically from 1 to 154 with an index to their first lines, and other miscellaneous texts. Contained also in this third volume is a list of anthologies with each of their contents cross-indexed to its entry in the main catalogue. Volume 4 contains four indexes: Shakespeare's titles and first lines; titles of musical works; composers, arrangers, and editors; and librettists and other writers. The selected bibliography comprising Volume 5 rounds out the work. A useful reader's guide, along with abbreviations used for musical terms, library abbrevia- tions, and, interestingly, a list of publish- ers' names and addresses begin volume 1. Under each literary title, the musical works, numbered sequentially, are ar- ranged in seven categories: incidental music, operas and related music, non- theatrical vocal music, nontheatrical in- strumental music, settings of combined and/ or unidentified texts, obliquely re- lated works, and non-Shakespearean works. Further subarrangement is al- phabetical by composer with title and other bibliographical information, in- strumentation, first performance details, repositories of the music, and the author's informative annotations. An overview of musical stage directions for each play precedes its musical listings. Unlike earlier bibliographies, the author includes works from the vast lit- erature of incidental music, but limits this chiefly to major productions. Other new features include projected works or works left unfinished, as well as composi- tions misattributed to Shakespeare or easily mistaken for settings of his work. The audience for this work is wide. Lit- erary scholars expanding their understand- ing of Shakespeare's texts, musicologists studying relationships between text and music, producers and performers wanting source material for performance, cultural historians documenting changes in cul- tural tastes will all find useful information. Most importantly, this work reveals the importance that music played, both in Shakespeare's conceptions of his works as well as in the popular reception accorded them over the past three hundred years. Only one play, The Comedy of Errors, does not explicitly require some form of music functional to the dramatic action. The authors indeed provide ample documen- tation for their assertion that "one reason that Shakespeare's genius is now recog- nized in all parts of the world is surely the role which the art of music has played in the dissemination of his works." -E.A.D. ART AND ARCHITECTURE Lerner, Loren R., and Mary F. William- son. Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981/ Art et architecture au Canada: bibliographie et guide de Ia documentation jusqu'en 1981. Toronto: Univ. Toronto Pr., 1991. 2v. $250 (ISBN 0-8020-5856- 6). LC CE91-93656. Selected Reference Books 423 A bilingual "reference guide to the most significant contributions to the literature of Canadian art and architecture published in Canada and abroad from 1825 to 1981" (preface). The 9,555 bibliographic entries are annotated, many with abstracts in French and English. They are based on references located in four existing periodi- cal indexes and specialized bibliographies and on the National Gallery of Canada catalog holdings for monographs, exhibi- tion catalogs, some theses, journals and journal articles, and association reports. "Emphasis is on the elusive retrospective literature, the indispensable foundation for art historical research." Volume 1, the bibliography, is orga- nized by topic, geographical area, and chronological period, as outlined in a detailed table of contents, and is preceded by a preface that serves as a solid and thoughtful introduction to the study of Canadian art history. Volume 2, the index, provides access by author and by English and French subject entries. The overall effect is similar to that of Arts in America: A Bibliography (Guide BEll). Two related and recent bibliographies for Canadian studies, both also bilingual, are Claude Bergeron's Index des periodiques d'architecture canadiens, 1940-1980/ Cana- dian Architectural Periodicals Index (Suppl. BE117) and Repertoire des dossiers documen- taires traitant de l' art et de 1' architecture dans les regions representees a Ia section ARUS MOQ/ Directory of Vertical File Collections on Art and Architecture Represented by ARUS M/0/Q (Suppl. BE51).-K.D.C. Thomison, Dennis. The Black Artist in Amer- ica: An Index to Reproductions. Metuchen, N.Y.: Scarecrow, 1991. 396p. $47.50 OSBN 0--8108-2503-1). LC 91-33050. This index was "published in order to provide easy access to the published re- production of fine art by American Black artists ... in books, periodicals, and exhibi- tion catalogs" (introduction) and is part of the growing genre of such publications. The body of the work is an alphabetical . listing of some one thousand artists from the colonial period to the present, giving names, dates, birthplace when avail- able, and media, followed by citations 424 College & Research Libraries for biographical sources, portraits, pub- lished reproductions, and further refer- ences, as pertinent. Citations are to a list of some 560 American publications, most from the 1960s through the 1980s. Front matter also includes names of the hundred institutions and collections consulted. A "Sources of Information" section is "de- signed to help the researcher do more ex- tensive investigation" and includes monographs devoted to single artists, pe- riodical articles, and bibliographies and then goes further to include doctoral dis- sertations, audiovisual materials, audio- visual producers and distributors, and exhibition catalogs. A modest subject index completes the volume. While multiple references are made to earlier reference works-most notably Theresa Cederholm's Afro-American Ar- tists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory (Guide BE180)-there are no references for the field of photography. In fact, this subject is overlooked entirely in the front matter, which is surprising given the decision to include folk art and in light of the author's position as a librarian and fa- culty member at the University of South- em California. Thus, the two works by Deborah Willis-Thomas will be useful with the current volume: Black Pho- tographers (Suppl. BF64n) and An Illustrated Rio-Bibliography of Black Photographers, 1940-1988 (Suppl. BF64).-K.D.C. POPULAR CULTURE Handbook of French Popular Culture. Ed. Pierre L. Hom. Westport, Conn.: Green- wood , 1991. 307p. $55 (ISBN 0-313- 261210). LC 90-23170. Inspired by scholarly studies of daily life, such as Femand Braude!' s Structures du quotidien, and modeled after the Handbook of American Popular Culture (Suppl. CF34), this collection of bibliographic essays by thirteen American and French scholars explores areas of popular culture: advertising, comics, de- tective stories, science fiction, cartoons, film, broadcasting, culinary matters, leisure, love, music, serial publications, and sports. Each chapter surveys historical back- ground, analyzes trends, comments on relevant studies, and offers suggestions for further research and reading. Notes September 1992 and bibliogrnphies cite both English and French works. The volume concludes with a bibliog-raphy of general sources, a list of museums, and an index by topic and cited author.-J.S. WOMEN'S STUDIES Women in the West: A Guide to Manuscript Sources. Ed. Susan Armitage and others. Women's History and Cultures, 5; Gar- land Reference Library in the Humanities, 1086. New York: Garland, 1991. 422p. $59 (ISBN 0-8240-4298-0). LC 91-24898. Intended to supplement Andrea Hind- ing's Women's History Sources (Guide CC554), this guide includes repositories in twenty western states, from Minnesota to Hawaii. Entries are arranged geographi- cally, list addresses and hours, and de- scribe services, principal holdings, multicultural materials, collections of special note, and guides. There are no indexes, although a list of repositories ar- ranged alphabetically by state completes the volume. This volume expands descrip- tions and includes some repositories not listed in Hinding.-S.S. AREA STUDIES Hartness, Ann. Brazil in Reference Books, 1965-1989: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1991. 351 p. $39.50 (ISBN 0-810-82400-0). LC 90- 28356. Haiti: Guide to the Periodical Literature in English, 1800-1990. Comp. and ed. Frantz Pratt. Bibliographies and Indexes in Latin American and Caribbean Stu- dies, 1. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1991. 310p. $45 (ISBN 0-313-27855-5). LC 91-7572. Latin America is a hot topic in many libraries today and librarians will wel- come any guide to the literature. These two bibliographies, unfortunately, though useful, do have faults. Brazil in Reference Books was com- piled by the acting field director of the Library of Congress Office in Rio de Janeiro and is an annotated listing of reference books published in any lan- guage, though Portuguese dominates. It is divided into broad chapters (agriculture, ranged in seven categories: incidental music, operas and related music, non- theatrical vocal music, nontheatrical in- strumental music, settings of combined and/ or unidentified texts, obliquely re- lated works, and non-Shakespearean works. Further subarrangement is al- phabetical by composer with title and other bibliographical information, in- strumentation, first performance details, repositories of the music, and the author's informative annotations. An overview of musical stage directions for each play precedes its musical listings. Unlike earlier bibliographies, the author includes works from the vast lit- erature of incidental music, but limits this chiefly to major productions. Other new features include projected works or works left unfinished, as well as composi- tions misattributed to Shakespeare or easily mistaken for settings of his work. The audience for this work is wide. Lit- erary scholars expanding their understand- ing of Shakespeare's texts, musicologists studying relationships between text and music, producers and performers wanting source material for performance, cultural historians documenting changes in cul- tural tastes will all find useful information. Most importantly, this work reveals the importance that music played, both in Shakespeare's conceptions of his works as well as in the popular reception accorded them over the past three hundred years. Only one play, The Comedy of Errors, does not explicitly require some form of music functional to the dramatic action. The authors indeed provide ample documen- tation for their assertion that "one reason that Shakespeare's genius is now recog- nized in all parts of the world is surely the role which the art of music has played in the dissemination of his works." -E.A.D. ART AND ARCHITECfURE Lerner, Loren R., and Mary F. William- son. Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981/ Art et architecture au Canada: bibliographie et guide de Ia documentation jusqu'en 1981. Toronto: Univ. Toronto Pr., 1991. 2v. $250 (ISBN 0-8020-5856- 6). LC CE91-93656. Selected Reference Books 423 A bilingual "reference guide to the most significant contributions to the literature of Canadian art and architecture published in Canada and abroad from 1825 to 1981" (preface). The 9,555 bibliographic entries are annotated, many with abstracts in French and English. They are based on references located in four existing periodi- cal indexes and specialized bibliographies and on the National Gallery of Canada catalog holdings for monographs, exhibi- tion catalogs, some theses, journals and journal articles, and association reports. "Emphasis is on the elusive retrospective literature, the indispensable foundation for art historical research." Volume 1, the bibliography, is orga- nized by topic, geographical area, and chronological period, as outlined in a detailed table of contents, and is preceded by a preface that serves as a solid and thoughtful introduction to the study of Canadian art history. Volume 2, the index, provides access by author and by English and French subject entries. The overall effect is similar to that of Arts in America: A Bibliograplty (Guide BEll). Two related and recent bibliographies for Canadian studies, both also bilingual, are Claude Bergeron's Index des periodiques d'architecture canadiens, 1940-1980/ Cana- dian Architectural Periodicals Index (Suppl. BE117) and Repertoire des dossiers documen- taires traitant de l' art et de l' architecture dans les regions representees a Ia section ARUS MOQ/ Directory of Vertical File Collections on Art and Architecture Represented by ARUS M/0/Q (Suppl. BESl).-K.D.C. Thomison, Dennis. The Black Artist in Amer- ica: An Index to Reproductions. Metuchen, N.Y.: Scarecrow, 1991.396p.$47.50 (ISBN 0-8108-2503-1). LC 91-33050. This index was "published in order to provide easy access to the published re- production of fine art by American Black artists ... in books, periodicals, and exhibi- tion catalogs" (introduction) and is part of the growing genre of such publications. The body of the work is an alphabetical . listing of some one thousand artists from the colonial period to the present, giving names, dates, birthplace when avail- able, and media, followed by citations 424 College & Research Libraries for biographical sources, portraits, pub- lished reproductions, and further refer- ences, as pertinent. Citations are to a list of some 560 American publications, most from the 1 %0s through the 1980s. Front matter also includes names of the hundred institutions and collections consulted. A "Sources of Information" section is "de- signed to help the researcher do more ex- tensive investigation" and includes monographs devoted to single artists, pe- riodical articles, and bibliographies and then goes further to include doctoral dis- sertations, audiovisual materials, audio- visual producers and distributors, and exhibition catalogs. A modest subject index completes the volume. While multiple references are made to earlier reference works-most notably Theresa Cederholm's Afro-American Ar- tists: A Rio-Bibliographical Directory (Guide BE180)-there are no references for the field of photography. In fact, this subject is overlooked entirely in the front matter, which is surprising given the decision to include folk art and in light of the author's position as a librarian and fa- culty member at the University of South- ern California. Thus, the two works by Deborah Willis-Thomas will be useful with the current volume: Black Pho- tographers (Suppl. BF64n) and An Illustrated Rio-Bibliography of Black Photographers, 1940-1988 (Suppl. BF64).-K.D.C. POPULAR CULTURE Handbook of French Popular Culture. Ed. Pierre L. Horn. Westport, Conn.: Green- wood, 1991. 307p. $55 (ISBN 0-313- 261210). LC 90-23170. Inspired by scholarly studies of daily life, such as Fernand Braude!' s Structures du quotidien, and modeled after the Handbook of American Popular Culture (Suppl. CF34), this collection of bibliographic essays by thirteen American and French scholars explores areas of popular culture: advertising, comics, de- tective stories, science fiction, cartoons, film, broadcasting, culinary matters, leisure, love, music, serial publications, and sports. Each chapter surveys historical back- ground, analyzes trends, comments on relevant studies, and offers suggestions for further research and reading. Notes September 1992 and bibliographies cite both English and French works. The volume concludes with a bibliog-raphy of general sources, a list of museums, and an index by topic and cited author.-J.S. WOMEN'S STUDIES Women in the West: A Guide to Manuscript Sources. Ed. Susan Armitage and others. Women's History and Cultures, 5; Gar- land Reference Library in the Humanities, 1086. New York: Garland, 1991. 422p. $59 OSBN 0-8240-4298-0). LC 91-24898. Intended to supplement Andrea Hind- ing's Women's History Sources (Guide CC554), this guide includes repositories in twenty western states, from Minnesota to Hawaii. Entries are arranged geographi- cally, list addresses and hours, and de- scribe services, principal holdings, multicultural materials, collections of special note, and guides. There are no indexes, although a list of repositories ar- ranged alphabetically by state completes the volume. This volume expands descrip- tions and includes some repositories not listed in Hinding.-S.S. AREA STUDIES Hartness, Ann. Brazil in Reference Books, 1965-1989: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1991. 351p. $39.50 (ISBN 0-810-82400-0). LC 90- 28356. Haiti: Guide to the Periodical Literature in English, 1800-1990. Comp. and ed. Frantz Pratt. Bibliographies and Indexes in Latin American and Caribbean Stu- dies, 1. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1991. 310p. $45 (ISBN 0-313-27855-5). LC 91-7572. Latin America is a hot topic in many libraries today and librarians will wel- come any guide to the literature. These two bibliographies, unfortunately, though useful, do have faults. Brazil in Reference Books was com- piled by the acting field director of the Library of Congress Office in Rio de Janeiro and is an annotated listing of reference books published in any lan- guage, though Portuguese dominates. It is divided into broad chapters (agriculture, architecture, etc.), which are further sub- divided into types (bibliographies, dic- tionaries) or subtopics. This is a useful arrangement, though a classified table of contents would help immeasurably in locating the subtopics. And the arrange- ment is sometimes too general to be of much use. The chapter on bibliogra- phies, for instance, lists in one alphabeti- cal sequence publications ranging from the various national bibliographies to a bibliography of agrarian reform. The very useful book on Brazil in the Area Handbook Series is listed under "General sources--other sources," not under "Politics and government," and seems to be impossible to locate through the subject index. The book described in the annotation as providing "explana- tions and instructions for practicing the rituals of candomble written for the nov- ice" (p. 274) seems to be stretching the definition of a reference book. The begin- ning date of 1965 also means that this guide, while it contains many useful ref- erences, can never be as useful as a ret- rospective bibliography. Any librarian who has used the useful but cumbersome Complete Haitiana (Guide DB439) will be thrilled by the thought of Haiti: Guide to Periodical Lit- erature in English. But opening the book is like deja vu all over again, under- standable when one learns that the com- piler is associated with Lambros Comitas's Institute for the Study of Man. It is arranged by nine broad topics (the physical setting, the human element, phi- lately, etc.), then by subdivisions which are explained in the "Notes to the User." En- tries are arranged chronologically under each subdivision. Once the shock of the typefaces wears off (the entries are completely capitalized, with the article titles italicized and the journals in bold- face) the reader can find a great deal of useful information, though this must be used with care. Surely the Nation and the National Catholic Reporter did not both publish C. McGill's article "Haitians in Limbo" on the same date and page. There are author and journal title in- dexes, but no subject index. The indexes again use all capital letters, strung across Selected Reference Books 425 the pages with no punctuation separat- ing the different references; they are es- sentially useless. It is disappointing that the publisher allowed such a useful title to be so poorly presented.-M.C. HEALTH SCIENCES Vision and Visual Dysfunction. Ed. John R. Cronly-Dillon. Boca Raton, Fla: CRC Pr., 1991. 17v. (each paginated sepa- rately). $1,995/set, $215/volume (ISBN 0-8493-7500-2). LC 90-1881. This seventeen-volume encyclopedia, originally published in England by the Macmillan Press (1990-91), is constructed around sixteen subject areas. Each com- prises a volume on a topic such as visual optics and instrumentation, perception of color, spatial vision, dyslexia, and pattern recognition. The general editor, John Cronly-Dillon, is professor and chairman of the Department of Optometry and Vi- sion Sciences at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in England. His purpose is to reflect the multidisciplinary trend in vision science and to provide a reposi- tory of current knowledge in the main areas of the field. Each volume is edited by one or more subject specialists and stands as a coher- ent work in its own right. The contribu- tors are from the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Canada, and Australia. All chapters have been ref- ereed, and the aim throughout has been not only to review current material, but also to explore new ideas and issues that may stimulate novel directions in re- search. Each volume has its own index, and Volume 17 is a complete contents list and index to all the volumes. Vision and Visual Dysfunction will be kept up to date by the publication of supplementary volumes that will con- tain brief summaries of important ex- perimental research results and their developments. It is a unique encyclope- dia of by far the greatest breadth and depth of any work ever published on the subject of vision. Scientists, clinicians, and engineers have an extraordinary new ref- erence work on the many facets of a topic that has been the subject of intense activity 426 College & Research Libraries over the last forty years. Fortunately this resource can be purchased as a whole or in individual volumes.-L.H. NEW EDITIONS AND SUPPLEMENTS Ralph DeSola has expanded the Abbre- viations Dictionary (6th ed., 1981. Guide AD36). Now in an eighth edition (Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Pr., 1992. 1,300p. $69.95; 7th ed., 1986), the volume offers such features as special lists of zip-coded auto- matic-processing abbreviations, bell-code signals, criminal and military terms (also featured in DeSola' s Worldwide Wltat & Where and his Crime Dictionary), frequently used signs and symbols such as abbrevia- tions of the airline industry and of naval craft. An appendix includes a list of musical superlatives and of eponyms. The volume is not indexed. The American Men & Women of Science, 1992-1993: Physical and Biological Sciences is the eighteenth edition (N.Y.: Bowker, [1992]. 8v. $750; 17th ed., 1989. Suppl. EA75) and has grown to 122,817 en- gineers and scientists including 7,021 en- tirely new entries. A small statistical section begins Volume 1. The Index to Volumes 1-12 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1788- 1939 (Melbourne: Univ. Pr.; London: Cam- bridge Univ. Pr., [1991]. 326p. See Guide AJ115, Suppl. AJ33 for the set) "references the names of 10,442 individuals, including the 7,211 major entries in the A.D.B. as well as every minor (small-capped) entry and many lesser ones. It also divides these people into 379 separate occupational categories. It further sets out the 612 different countries in which they were born, subdividing these places into states or counties, cities or towns, villages or pastoral stations" (Preface). A consoli- dated list of corrigenda is included. In 1977 J. Gordon Melton compiled Religious Bodies in the United States: A Directory based on files at the Institute for Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, California. He has gone back to these files and has compiled a listing for each religious group known to be oper- ating in the United States as of the sum- mer of 1991, along with its headquarters September 1992 address and telephone number and a brief paragraph of identification (New York: Garland, 1992. 312 p. $55 Adding to its usefulness is an alphabetical index which includes alternate names. Invest Yourself: The Catalogue of Volun- teer Opportunities. Ed. Susan G. Angus (New York: Commission on Voluntary Service and Action, 1991. 128p. $7.95) has grown to include about two hundred nongovernmental organizations which offer voluntary service opportunities. Al- phabetically organized, the volume pro- vides geographical and category indexes. Index Islamicus (Guide· BB518) has a sixth supplement covering 34,382 entries from the Quarterly Index Is/amicus for 1981- 1985 (ed. G. J. Roper. London: Mansell, [1991]. 2v. (1,347p.) £130). This cumulation takes into account the new sections on music and drama, economics, politics, and Muslim minorities which appeared with the 1983 issues, as well as elaborated subheadings. A subject index is also new. The editor points out that the output of scholarship on the Muslim world is dou- bling every ten years. The Reference Library of Black America (Philadelphia: Afro-American' Pr., [1990]. 5v. $179.90) is a repackaging of the fifth edition of the Negro Almanac (Detroit: Gale, 1989) "to facilitate usage among students" (title page). Gale has been reprinting excerpts from critical writings about various authors and their works, e.g., Contem- porary Literary Criticism (Guide BD43), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Guide BD47), Short Story Criticism (Suppl. BD99). There are two new collections which are partly drawn from the earlier volumes in the Literary Criticism Series: Poetry Criticism (v.1, 1991) whose compiler states that this title does not duplicate CLC more than 15 percent and Black Lit- erature Criticism (1992. 3v). with about half the entries selected from earlier volumes, but revised. Richard A. Lanham has reviewed his Hand list of Rhetorical Terms (Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Pr., [1991]. 205p. $35; 1st ed. 1968. Guide BD347) to provide for easier use, · to supply more and more modem ex- amples, and to revise and update the bib- liography. It is still very much a begin- ner's guide. The second edition of the Oxford Com- panion to American Theatre by Gerald Bordman is still as opinionated, enter- taining, and useful as the first (New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1992. 734p. $49.95; 1st ed., Guide BG56). Added are "significant figures, groups, and plays which have appeared since our first writing and the end of 1990" (preface). There are one-sentence updates to many of the articles, and there is still no index. Christoph Kimmich has updated his German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, [1991]. 264p. $40; 1st ed., 1981, Guide DC197). Entries for the archives and li- braries have been updated, but it is in the bibliographic portions that the most new material has been added both in the foot- notes and in the bibliography chapters. Similar updating has occurred with the French, Italian, German, British, and In- ternational Organizations volumes, and Selected Reference Books 427 new guides for the Soviet Union and for International Economic Relations have appeared. Research Guide to Libraries and Archives in the Low Countries, comp. Martha L. Brogan (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, [1991]. 546p. $75) is similar in arrange- ment and information to the others in the series commissioned by the Council of European Studies (see the two volumes by E. K. Welsch on France and Germany, Guide AB133, AB136, and by Lewanski for Italy, Guide AB148). This volume covers libraries and archives in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg and gives references to any user's guides or books and articles for further reading as well as the expected information on size, address, classification, services, and description, but not hours as the other volumes have done. Additional bibliographical sections feature lists of national bibliographies, union catalogs, national biographical dictionaries, directories and guides to collections, subject guides, and bibliogra- phies. The volume is well indexed. SUMMA CUM LAUDE ... is how academic librarians rank EBSCO's serials management services! 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