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BOOK REVIEWS vant place names. A cursory examination of his check-list and index evokes such Northwestern Approaches: the First Cen­ memorable names as Vitus Bering of Ber­ tury of Books. By R. D. Hilton Smith. ing Sea, Robert Gray of Gray's Harbor, Victoria, B.C.: The Adelphi Book Shop Simon Fraser of Fraser River, and George Vancouver of Vancouver Island, along with Ltd., 1969. 67p. $6.50. Alexander Mackenzie, David .Thompson, This I know. Any book about the Pa­ Otto von Kotzebue, John Jewitt, and Baron cific Northwest is a collector's item. North­ de Lesseps. western Approaches passes muster for oth­ The longest chapter in Northwestern er reasons, too. It is something in the na­ Approaches has to do with British land ture of a bibliography printed and pub­ and sea explorations conducted, it is so lished in British Columbia, and issued in a hard to believe, during the height of the limited edition of 750 copies. The book American Revolution. Mr. Smith's narra­ derives from a series of lectures given to tive contains sufficient historical chronolo­ the students of the University of British gy to place each bibliographic entry in a Columbia School of Librarianship in 1966. proper perspective. Mr. Smith devoted his talks to "books Northwestern Approaches should be as written by the explorers of British Colum­ acceptable to aficionados of Pacific North­ bia and its approaches during the century west Americana as it can be useful to which began with Bering's first voyage and compatriots who wish merely to acquire a ended with Sir George Simpson's second hazy impression of early explorations and journey to the Columbia." This meant no voyages. The narrative is clear and easy inhibition, however, for "British Columbia on the mind. Since Hilton Smith is an ex­ and its approaches" virtually covers the perienced librarian and alert bookman, he Pacific rim. is nicely attuned to British Columbiana. The book contains tidy thumbnail ac· He has enriched his presentation with counts of major explorations conducted twelve judiciously chosen illustrations. Dr. from Russia, Spain, Great Britain, France, Samuel Rothstein originated the library and the United States during the hundred school lectures and contributed a Fore­ years, 1728 to 1828. Mr. Smith's repertory word to them.-Harry C. Bauer, University of books arising from these explorations in­ of Washington. cludes works that any librarian or schooled Junior College Libraries: Development, layman must take cognizance of if he Needs, and Perspectives. By Everett wishes to reside and live long in the Pa­ LeRoy Moore, ed. (ACRL Monograph, cific Northwest. Regionalism is inexorable, No. 30). Chicago: American Library and nobody in the Pacific Northwest can Association, 1969. 104p. (68-56370). afford to be a landlubber. To survive, one must be conversant with Captain Van­ Community Junior College Libraries: couver's ship, the Discovery, and know Development, Needs, and Perspectives that Captain Cook had a Discovery, too, should have been the title of this publica­ as well as a Resolution. Northwestern Ap· tion. This brief volume is a collection of proaches provides a key to these and ap­ nineteen papers submitted at the Confer­ proximately forty other never-to-be-forgot­ ence on Junior College Libraries held at ten ships, including the New Hazard of the University of California, Los Angeles, Stephen Reynolds, the Astrolabe of La June 21-24, 1967. Except for Ralph S. Perouse, the Neva of Urey Lisiansky, and Emerick, Director of the Library at Ste­ the Argonaut of James Colnett. Further­ phens College, who represented the pri­ more, Mr. Smith would never forsake rele- vate junior college library, all the program 544/