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422 I College & Research Libraries • September 1975 McCarthy, Cavan. Developing Libraries In spite of adverse conditions, McCarthy in Brazil; With a Chapter on Parag1UJy. identifies some outreach measures such as Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1975. 207p. bookboxes serving various sites of large em $8.00. (LC 74-23681) (ISBN 0-8108- ployment in lieu of bookmobiles or branch 0750-5) libraries and bookbanks for economically A sensitive academic librarian ( U niversi disadvantaged students. The National Book ty of Leeds) spends thirteen months pro Institute's ( INL) innovative publishing and fessionally employed and traveling through library programs are worthy of considera out Brazil during 1971-72. The results are tion by the economically developed coun empirical vignettes of frustration, accom tries. Hundreds of libraries owe their ex plishment, irrationality, and excesses: any istence to the INL core collection; INL of perceptive, articulate librarian with Latin fers technical training for paraprofessionals American field experience can offer similar managing these collections. Guaranteed fare. McCarthy generally succeeds in de bloc purchase of approved titles is part of scribing most types of libraries, the princi INL's coedition venture with other presses. pal problems confronting them, and high The author credits many of Brazil's prob lighting innovative aspects worthy of con lems to an unquestioning adherence to the sideration by Western (i.e., North Ameri U.S. model by the rightist military govern can, British, and parts of Europe) librari ment ( 1964- ) . The importation of ans. "foreign subculture" is deplored, but to ig Brazilian acceptance of Western library nore internationally acclaimed Brazilians as theory and practice emphasizes the dichoto Heitor Vila-Lobos, Jorge Amado, Joao Gui mous nature such models have in econom maraes Rosa, and Clarice Lispector is un ically disadvantaged countries. From the just. One must also exercise critical caution sophistication of Sao Paulo to the anach with McCarthy's racial observations. ronisms of Maranhao, effective service of The chapter on Paraguay is descriptively ten cannot be realized due to the conflict similar to commentary on Brazil's north between theoretical objectives and Brazilian east. reality. McCarthy identifies closed stacks The book as a whole is a useful contribu and restrictive or nonexistent loan policies tion about libraries, library service, and li as fundamental problems nationally. After brarianship. For a comprehensive, analyt formal education is completed, the "library ical survey of Brazilian libraries and educa habit" ceases; hence, in most libraries pa tion, however, one must consult William V. trons are the young, but McCarthy suggests Jackson's two articles in the Encyclopedia Brazilians probably would not trust any age of Library and Information Science ( vol. group to return borrowed materials! 3, p.166-259). His extensive bibliographies Library science education and the diffi include citations through 1969. Those inter culties of employment are covered suffi ested in research library collections will ciently for introductory survey purposes in still find standard Robert Levine's Brazil: comparative librarians'hip. Nearly all Field Research Guide in the Social Sciences courses are taught by part-time, practicing (New York: Columbia University, Institute librarians, usually graduates of the same in of Latin American Studies, 1966). While stitute or university. Because most of the this reviewer was disappointed with the practicing librarians are women with lim treatment of policy issues (e.g., budget, col ited geographic and occupational mobility, lection scope, state and federal govern local placement is common; the implica mental involvement) as well as the anec tions of endogamy are obvious, as some dotal nature of the study, McCarthy offers North American academic libraries know. much worthy of further thought and re Professional positions often are part time search.-Peter T. Johnson, !hero-American and government controlled. Many librarians Bibliographer, University of Minnesota toil in totally unsuitable structures with Twin Cities. architectural design inhibiting the normal library functions, maintain too many card Drazniowsky, Roman, comp. Map Libraf'i catalogs, have little or no money for sub anship: Readings. Metuchen, N.J., Scare scriptions or books, and do not benefit or crow, 1975. 547p. $20.00 (LC 7 4- engage in networking. 19244) (ISBN 0-8108-0739-4) Recent Publications I 423 This volume is intended "to provide at from the Special Libraries Association Ge least some guidance for map librarians" ography and Map Division Bulletin indi through "presenting a compilation of se cates the importance of this serial as a pro lected articles on seven specific subjects" fessional journal. Five of the articles in as a "systematic and sequential description cluded which were reprinted from Special of map collection operation." There are Libraries have also been reprinted previous forty-eight articles divided under the topics ly (with one additional paper) by Special of: introduction to maps (four), the ele Libraries Association as Recent Practices ments of maps (seven), map classification in Map Libraries ( 1971 ) , · and were orig and use (seven), map bibliographies/ ac inally presented in June 1969 at a panel on quisitions (eight), map processing and cat "Problems of the Smaller Map Libraries." aloging (eight) , map storage and preserva The list of additional references based on tion (five), and map librarianship/ map col the subject of each chapter seems especial lections (nine) . Two articles were written ly useful for furthering one's knowledge of by the compiler. The volume also has an particular areas of interest in the field. Be eighteen-page bibliography section ar cause it is a collection of articles, this vol ranged by chapter and an eight-page index. ume does provide some more advanced or Forty-six authors are represented and in more specialized material regarding map clude cartographers, geographers, and map librarianship than the October 1973 issue librarians from the United States, Canada, of the Drexel Library Quarterly, which was Great Britain, and Australia. The articles devoted entirely to map librarianship on a represent thirteen serial publications: Asso beginning level. However, this issue costs ciation of American Geographers Annals only $3.00 while this volume is $20.00. It (one) , Association of Canadian Map Li is too bad that publication was over a year braries Proceedings (two), Canadian Car and a half after the compiler's date of com tographer (three), Cartographic Journal pletion, according to his preface. (two), Geographical Magazine (two), In It is very difficult to criticize such a com ternational Yearbook of Cartography (two), pilation as to choice of articles. Some ar Journal of Geography (five), Library Jour ticles are omitted, perhaps, because of lag nal (two), Military Engineer (one), Pho times in publication, such as the previous togrammetric Engineering (one), Society ly mentioned Drexel Library Quarterly is of University Cartographers Bulletin sue or the chapter on "Maps and Map Col (one), Special Libraries (nine), and Spe lections" (by Mary Galneder and this re cial Libraries Association Geography and viewer) included in the ACRL Publications Map Division Bulletin (seventeen). The ar in Librarianship no. 34, Non print Media in ticles range in date of original publication Academic Libraries (edited by Pearce S. from 1950 to 1972, with nine each from Grove) which has recently been published 1967 and 1970, five from 1969, four each (although the chapter was completed in from 1961 and 1966, three from 1972 and September 1972). I do not wish to go fur only two from before 1960. The compiler's ther into comparisons of article choice. preface is dated August 1973. Photographs, What seems most important is that this vol maps, diagrams, graphs, and charts which ume does gather together primarily recent originally appeared with the articles have articles relating to maps and map librarian also been reprinted (successfully) , and the ship. It is a bit costly, but I recommend it articles themselves were retyped in a uni to those students of map librarianship who form format. have already read and digested the previ Hopefully, the foregoing analysis of the ously mentioned material. Make use of the contents of the volume will give prospec bibliographies in the articles and those com tive purchasers something to evaluate the piled by Mr. Drazniowsky. It is not a dead book in terms of possible use to themselves. end volume. The compiler appears to have The seven subjects chosen do provide some achieved his previously quoted purpose. good basic readings in areas about which Alberta Auringer Wood, Map Specialist, map librarians should be concerned. The Detroit Public Library. articles seem to have been thoughtfully chosen and provide a variety of viewpoints. Tebbel, John. A History of Book Publish The fact that seventeen articles were drawn ing in the United States. Volume II. .

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