reviews Book Reviews 583 Index to advertisers AIAA 498, 544 American Chemical Society cover 3 Archival Products 514 Biosis 480 CHOICE 561 Elsevier Science 479 Library Technologies 483 Primary Source Microfilm cover 4 TechBooks 527 Science Direct cover 2 University of California Press 497 ing prolabor freelance newspaper col- umns and scheduling a labor film series at a county library; questioning why a system closed on Easter, but not on Jew- ish holidays; criticizing library manage- ment at a city council meeting; support- ing a black coworker who charged the administration with job discrimination; publicly opposing a new main building with inadequate space for books; asking for improved security following a sexual assault; and expressing an opinion on the merits of AACR2 to state OCLC vendors. In the last instance, the librarian was sub- sequently reprimanded, forced into retire- ment, and five books written or edited by him, plus a sixth about him, expunged from the library’s catalog and shelves. Indeed, the “library profession,” includ- ing local and national IF units, apparently did not take “its responsibilities” very seriously in these cases. And an amend- ment to the Library Bill of Rights that would have extended free speech rights to library staff, affording them the same protection as materials and meeting rooms, was introduced to the ALA Coun- cil in 1999 but ultimately scuttled, buried. This event, perhaps unsurprisingly, also is unreported in the Manual. (Likewise unnoted are the documented examples of censorship or omission within the library press [e.g., “Top Censored Library Stories of 1998/2000,” Unabashed Librarian, nos. 118, 119]). Two final observations: First, the next edition would greatly benefit from an annotated directory of journals, groups, and Web sites concerning freedom of in- formation, censorship, and media democ- racy. Such a list should helpfully include sources for identifying and selecting truly diverse materials (e.g., Counterpoise, MultiCultural Review, Small Press Review, Women’s Review of Books). Second, isn’t it about time for ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee and Office for Intellectual Freedom to advise the Library of Con- gress that there really is a concept called “intellectual freedom” that deserves its own subject heading? (At present, the term appears in LCSH as an omnibus “see” reference to more specific topics such as “Academic freedom” and “Cen- sorship.” A subject search under “Intel- lectual freedom” will yield neither the OIF Manual nor Samek’s book.)—Sanford Berman, Alternative Library Literature. Kister, Kenneth F. Eric Moon: The Life and Library Times. Foreword by John N. Berry III. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002. 442p., alk. paper, $30 (ISBN 0786412534). LC 2001-7509. Kenneth Kister, of Kister’s Best Encyclope- dias renown, has tackled the fertile, but seldom tilled, field of library biography. What makes Kister’s biography particu- larly interesting is the fact that its subject, the legendary Eric Moon, is still very much alive and kicking. That having been said, Kister does not shrink from telling all he has gathered from more than a hundred hours of interviews with Moon himself and his second wife, Ilse, but also with his family (including his mother Grace and his younger brother, Bryan), and friends and colleagues (notably, Patricia Glass Schuman, John N. Berry III, E. J. Josey, and Arthur Curley, all of whom eventually served as president of the ALA). Although Kister lets Moon and others tell their sides of the story in their own words, he remains very much in control of the content and direction of the narrative. Eric Edward Moon, the first of two sons of working-class parents Ted and Grace (Scott) Moon, was born March 6, 1923, in Yeovil, an old town in the south 584 College & Research Libraries November 2002 of England about sixty miles west of Southampton, the large port city where he attended elementary and secondary school, found his first library job, and married his first wife, Diana. After gradu- ating from secondary school, Moon real- ized that he had no chance of getting a university education, a dream not easily attained by the British working class, par- ticularly in the late 1930s. His first job, in 1939, was as junior li- brary assistant at the Southampton Pub- lic Library. While there, he passed the el- ementary exam of the Library Associa- tion, the first rung of the library profes- sional ladder in England. In 1941, at age eighteen, he enlisted in the Royal Air Force and served for the duration of World War Two in England; Comilla, East Bengal (then in India, now Bangladesh); and Singapore. After being discharged in the summer of 1946, he returned to Southampton. In May 1947, Eric married Diana Mary Simpson, also a junior library assistant in Southampton. Moon decided to attend one of the new library schools, Loughborough College, that had been created after the war to prepare return- ing veterans for taking the Library Association’s registration examination, another of the qualifying hurdles for li- brarians in the United Kingdom. There, he thoroughly enjoyed his studies with mentor Roy Stokes. Moon passed the reg- istration exam in the summer of 1948 and took a second year at Loughborough to study for the fellowship examination and earn the prestigious title of Fellow of the Library Association (FLA). Between the summer of 1949 and June 1958, he served as librarian in Hertfordshire (Bushey and Oxhey); Finchley, north of London; Brentford and Chiswick, west of London; and Kensington in London’s West End, before leaving England for his first job in North America, as chief librarian in New- foundland, Canada. Having been an active member of both the “staid” Library Association and the “feisty” Association of Assistant Librar- ians (Kister ’s adjectives) while in En- gland, Moon joined the Canadian Library Association shortly after arriving in New- foundland, where he served from June 1958 until October 1959. He was wooed away, with absolutely no reluctance on his part, from his position in Newfoundland by Dan Melcher of Bowker in New York. Melcher was eager for him to take over the helm of the then stodgy, establish- ment-oriented Library Journal, founded in 1876 by none other than Melvil Dewey. Moon joined the ALA and remained an active member throughout his career. While editor of Library Journal, from late autumn of 1959 to the end of December 1968, Moon was able to use LJ as the me- dium for addressing social and political responsibilities of librarianship—which the complacent ALA would have been more than happy to ignore—including civil rights, intellectual freedom, poverty, gender discrimination, government se- crecy, and the Vietnam War. In 1965, Moon became a member of the Bowker board of directors and a citizen of the United States. Moon’s zeal for reforming the ALA con- tinued unabated, and in 1965, he was elected to the ALA Council. He served on the council from 1965 to 1972, from 1976 to 1979, and from 1982 to 1986. During his last few months at LJ, about a year after Bowker was bought out by Xerox, Moon met Ilse (Bloch) Webb, then a librarian at the College of William and Mary, at a party in the notorious LJ suite at the 1968 ALA Annual Conference in Kansas City, Mo. Thus began a deep friendship between Eric and Ilse, who were both unhappily mar- ried at the time. After a nearly three-year affair, concluding with his divorce from Diana and Ilse’s divorce from Ken Webb, they were married in 1971. Moon had left LJ in late December of 1968 and in the spring of 1969 began ne- gotiations with Ted Waller of Grolier Edu- cational Corporation to take over Scare- crow Press (then a Grolier subsidiary) as its chief editor. He officially took over the reins of the small and struggling press on July 1, 1969, after the ALA Annual Con- ference in Atlantic City, during which the Social Responsibilities Round Table Book Reviews 585 (SRRT) was founded. Moon, who was instrumental in the founding of the SRRT, remained a loyal member and supporter throughout his library career. While still at Scarecrow, Moon trans- formed this small library press into the major publishing venture in librarianship that it is today. In no small way due to his business acumen at LJ and Scarecrow, Moon was inaugurated in 1977 as ALA president at the annual conference in De- troit. The theme for his ALA presidential year, to advocate an egalitarian national information policy, was never fully real- ized because of the protracted scandal centering on the release of the film Speaker, intended to champion First Amendment rights, but which offended the black lead- ers and membership of ALA along with defenders, black and white, of the civil rights movement. Moon retired from Scarecrow at the end of 1978 at age fifty-five, and the couple moved to Florida. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Eric remained in- volved in writing and speaking, while Ilse returned to work, serving as executive secretary of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) from 1988 to 1992. In 1993, Scare- crow published a collection of his writ- ings and speeches entitled A Desire to Learn: Selected Writings. Eric, who turned 79 in 2002, and Ilse, his wife of more than thirty years, are now enjoying a well-de- served retirement in Florida, filled with golf, travel, reading, and family. An example of Moon the mentor is Robert McFarland Franklin, founder of McFarland & Company, Inc., in Jefferson, North Carolina, publisher of this biogra- phy and Moon’s number two man at Scarecrow Press during most of the 1970s. Leaving Scarecrow in March 1979, about a year or so after Moon, Franklin had su- pervised publication of McFarland’s first six books by September 1980. Kister ’s in-depth biography of Eric Moon is well written, impeccably docu- mented, and extensively indexed. It should be in the collections of academic libraries throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, particularly those serving institutions with graduate pro- grams in library and information sci- ence.—Plummer Alston Jones, Jr., East Caro- lina University. Neely, Teresa Y. Sociological and Psycho- logical Aspects of Information Literacy in Higher Education. Lanham, Md.: Scare- crow Pr., 2002. 188p., alk. paper, $47.50 (ISBN 0810841053). LC 2002-21214. “What makes an individual information literate?” This is the question that Neely poses in this slim monograph based on her 2000 doctoral dissertation. Reporting the results of a survey conducted of stu- dents at an anonymous research univer- sity, Neely attempts to shed light on this question through an analysis of several factors, including: student attitudes to- ward information skills (and information skills instruction), student performance on information skills assessments, stu- dent relationships with faculty, student exposure to the information environment, and student experience in the information environment. Although Neely uncovers important aspects of each of these factors through her review of the literature and analysis of the survey data collected, this monograph ultimately fails to deliver on the expansive promise of its title and leaves the reader feeling that it may have been rushed too quickly from its original dissertation form. Like many dissertations, this work be- gins with the identification of a perceived lacuna in the literature. Neely argues that there is a “marked lack of empirical re- search” on information literacy and that this has left us with little agreement on what information literacy actually means or on how best to design information lit- eracy instruction in higher education. Although there is little doubt that the re- search agenda for those of us interested in information literacy remains wide open, one cannot help but think that Neely is exaggerating both the scope and the uniqueness of this problem. 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