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Recent Publications I 83 tions. The guide itself is advertised at $35 ground. Professionally, the preferred com while Books in Print 1977/78 quotes a price bination of disciplines includes library sci of $17.50. At the latter price it should be in ence, psychology, and literature, with field every research library. service training recommended. Rubin For a detailed description of the guide quotes from several sources on each of the consult Dodson's article "Toward Biblio above points to demonstrate that the infor graphic Control: The Development of a mation on bibliotherapy is conflicting and Guide to Microform Research Collections" confusing. in Microform Review 7:'203-12 (July/Aug. In selecting materials for bibliotherapy, ~ 1978). At the present rate of new collections the content is more important than the publication, a more comprehensive and literary quality. The suggested juvenile streamlined second edition with cumulative books and films, arranged and cross updates would be welcome.-Leo R. Rift, referenced by topic, draw heavily from Ithaca College, Ithaca , New York. those of the last five years. An extensive, much-needed bibliography of poems, plays, Rubin, Rhea Joyce. Using Bibliotherapy: A short stories, films , and books for adults Guide to Theory and Practice. A Neal deals with subjects causing problems for Schuman Professional Book. Phoenix, them. Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1978. 245p. $11.95. LC In the companion volume, Bibliotherapy 78-9349. ISBN 0-912700-07-6. Sourcebook, Rubin gathers studies from var Bibliotherapy Sourcebook. Edited by Rhea ious sources and disciplines into a book to Joyce Rubin. A Neal-Schuman Profes fac ilitate research. The section, "Classic sional Book. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, Works on Bibliotherapy (1927-1949)," in 1 ' 1978. 393p. $14.95. LC 78-939. ISBN cludes selections by William Menninger, 0-912 700-04-1. Alice I. Bryan, and Caroline Shrodes. Bibliotherapy is "a program of activity The second part, "The View from Other based on the interactive processes of the Disciplines," shows that bibliotherapy com use of print and nonprint materials whether bines with a number of fields. The editor imaginative or informational, facilitated by a selected writings illustrating how bib librarian or other professional, to achieve liotherapy is linked to psychiatry, education, insight into normal development or to effect counseling, occupational therapy, and changes in emotionally disturbed behavior," poetry therapy. according to the author. "Bibliotherapy and Library Science," the In Using Bibliotherapy: A Guide to third part, begins with two articles that pro Theory and Practice Rhea Joyce Rubin vide an overview of the goals, methods, and traces the development of this adjunct ther limitations of bibliotherapy. Other contribu apy in the United States. During a typical tions demonstrate the opportunities for its session the bibliotherapist presents the ma use in diverse settings. terial to a group or to an individual, hoping During the last twenty years, foreign that identification with a remote character journals have published much on bib and projection leading to catharsis will oc liotherapy. The final section, " Foreign cur. Essential to the process is discussion on Perspectives," describes such programs in a personal level, an avenue for the client's England, Canada, New Zealand, South Af insight into the solution of his or her own rica, the USSR, and Sweden, none of which problems. The differences between bib are so sophisticated as those in the United liotherapy and the newer poetry therapy are States. enumerated. Both have proved beneficial in Numerous references at the end of every hospitals, correctional institutions, educa chapter, plus bibliographies, appendixes, tional environments, and community set and indexes in both volumes, increase their tings. usefulness. Because they include the works Success for bibliotherapists seems to de of the best-known authors in the field, these pend more on personal qualities such as could be used as textbooks for a course on emotional stability and the ability to relate bibliotherapy. They should help to fulfill well with people than on academic back- Margaret E. Monroe's wish in the foreword 84 I College & Research Libraries • January 1979 of Using Bibliotherapy that they "will lead ter on services to the deaf is the least com the alert, prepared librarian-bibliotherapist prehensive, a result, probably, of the dearth to undertake the research needed to move of literature in this area. bibliotherapy from its status as an activity to The book is intended primarily for stu its desired status of an art and a controlled dents of librarianship and for those begin science."-Sister Alma Marie Walls, ning their professional careers. While there I.H.M., Immaculata College, Immaculata, are some minor inaccuracies, e.g., reference Pennsylvania. to Rhea Rubin as "he" (p.86); "Christina" for Christa (p.ll6); and reference to the in Bramley, Gerald. Outreach: Library Ser troduction of the Library Services and Con vices for the Institutionalized, the El struction "Bill" in 1966-LSCA was passed derly, and the PhysicaUy Handicapped. in 1965 (p.169), as a comparative study of London: Clive Bingley; Hamden, Conn.: British and U.S. approaches to outreach Linnet Books, 1978. 232p. $12.50. LC services, it does fulfill its purpose and pro 78-7281. ISBN 0-85157-254-5 Bingley; vides a good overall view. 0-208-01663-5 Linnet. In addition to the referen_ces found at the Gerald Bramley's Outreach covers both end of each chapter, there is a select read the British and U.S. aspects of library ser ing list and index in the appendix. Concern vice to the institutionalized, the elderly, ing any detailed account of U.S. involve and the handicapped. Two chapters each ment in these types of outreach services, are devoted to hospital libraries and prison however, one must go considerably beyond libraries; one each to library services for the what is found in this work. The Rehabilita elderly, the disabled, the blind, the par tion Act of 1973, a crucial piece of legisla tially sighted, the mentally retarded, and tion underlying any service to the disabled, the deaf. Generally, the background and for example, is not mentioned. It should be services for each group are described first useful to those in public libraries but less so for Great Britain and then for the U.S. with for those in academic and special librar footnote references at the end of each chap ies. -Lucille Whalen, State University of ter. Curiously, however, the chapter on li New York at Albany. brary services for the disabled is almost en tirely devoted to the British scene with only One Book/Five Ways: The Publishing Pro one of the twenty citations referring to a cedures of Five University Presses. U.S. publication. Foreword by Joyce Kachergis. Introduc It is evident throughout the work that tion by Chandler Grannis. Afterword by both countries have faced similar problems William Kaufmann. Los Altos, Calif.: in attempting to provide outreach services. William Kaufmann, Inc., 1978. 337p. With a chronic lack of personnel and funds, $9.75 paperback; $18.75 hardcover. LC both have relied heavily on volunteers to 78-9505. ISBN 0-913232-53-X; 0-91323- staff programs, and few programs to any of 54-8 paperback. the groups have been notably successful. This book describes how five presses The chapters on the blind and partially would publish the same book, No Time for sighted are probably the most comprehen House Plants by "Purvis Mulch." The same sive, giving detailed descriptions of the 180-page manuscript with illustrations was Braille and Moon systems, talking and presented to the university presses of large-print books, cassettes, and services, Chicago, North Carolina, Texas, Toronto, such as those offered by RNIB (Royal Na and the Massachusetts Institute of Technol tional Institute for the Blind) and the Na ogy. Each press agreed to treat this manu tional Library of Talking Books, both of script as if it were actually going to publish which are British. DBPH (the Division for it and to prepare complete logs of the work the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Li for presentation in One Book/Five Ways. brary of Congress, now the National Library The presentations run from thirty-five to Service for the Blind and Physically Hand sixty-six pages, but all conform to the same icapped) and the American Printing House outline covering the four major aspects of for the Blind are also described. The chap- publishing: acquisitions and administration, .

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