ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


October 1995/661

N ew 
Publications

G eo rge M. Eberhαrt

Banned B ooks: 1995
Resource Guide, by Robert 
P. Doyle (136 pages, May 
1995), is an excellent source 
of ideas for exhibits on cen­
sorship and First Am end­
ment rights. It’s also depress­
ing to discover that school 
districts were still challeng­
ing Catcher in the Rye, O f 
Mice and Men, and Huckle­
berry Fin n  in 1994. For 
$28.00 you get the book, 100 
bookmarks, and four differ­
ent Banned Books posters.
ALA, Banned Books Week, 50 E. Huron St., 
Chicago, IL 60611. ISBN 0-8389-7791-X.

Berliner Gram ophone Records: Am er­
ican Issues, 1892—1900, compiled by Paul 
Charosh (290 pages, April 1995), is the first dis­
cography o f the earliest disc recordings in the 
United States. It docum ents som e 3,000 
gramophone discs, arranged by catalog num­
ber and cross-indexed by title, performer, and 
recording date. The varied styles o f music and 
spoken word recordings are a barometer o f fin  
de siècle popular culture. $75.00. Greenwood 
Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881- 
5007. ISBN 0-313-29217-5.

Colour Art & Science, edited by Trevor Lamb 
and Janine Bourriau (237 pages, May 1995), 
contains essays presented at the 1993 Darwin 
College Lectures by experts on color in phys­
ics, biology, history, and art. Selected topics 
include the history o f color theory in Western 
painting, color mechanisms o f the eye, and color 
designations in other languages. $59.95. Cam­
bridge University Press, 40 W. 20th St., New 
York, N Y  10011-4211. ISBN 0-521-49645-4.

Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness, and 
Reality, by Walt Crawford and Michael Gorman 
(198 pages, 1995), takes an alternative look at 
electronic resources in libraries. In a vein simi­
lar to Sven Birkets’s The Gutenberg Elegies and 
Clifford Stoll’s Silicon Snake Oil, Crawford and 
Gorman delineate what new technology can 
and cannot do and they warn o f the social costs 
of blind, addictive technolust. Future libraries, 
they say, must be masters o f a mix o f media in 
order to “empower the unempowered through

k n o w led ge and inform a
t io n ”— and that means 
choosing the proper tools. 
Much o f this has been said 
before, but Crawford and 
Gorman have freshly re­
packaged it in this concise 
and pragmatic book (not 
available on the Internet). 
$25.00. ALA Editions, Book 
Order Fulfillment, 155 N. 
W acker Dr., Chicago, IL 
60606-1719. ISBN 0-8389- 
0647-8.

Facts about the British Prime Ministers, 
by Dermot Englefield, Janet Seaton, and Isobel 
White (440 pages, May 1995), profiles the 50 
people who have held this office since 1721. 
Chapters summarize the PM’s achievements, 
family history, elections, and personal and pro­
fessional events. With a foreword by John Ma­
jor and 80 tables o f data comparing length o f 
service, occupations, hobbies, and other infor­
mation. $55.00. H.W. Wilson Co., 950 Univer­
sity Ave., Bronx, N Y 10452. ISBN 0-8242-0863-3.

Health Industry QuickSource, edited by 
Mary Jeanne Cilurzo (1,023 pages, March 1995), 
is a directory o f CD-ROM software, online da­
tabases, and printed periodicals covering spe­
cific areas in the health sciences. A subject in­
dex in the front allows you to focus your search 
on, for example, toxicology CD-ROMs or long­
term care periodicals. The information is ob­
tained directly from the publishers and ven­
dors o f the products listed. $225.00 (20% 
discount available to public libraries and 
nonprofits). QuickSource Press, 10 Pelham Ave., 
Nanuet, N Y 10954-3428. ISBN 1-886515-08-5.

Information Literacy: Educating Children 
for the 21st Century, by Patricia Senn Breivik 
and J. A. Senn (1994), advocates the integra­
tion o f information resources and technologies 
into the K– 12 curriculum. Topics include: re­
source-based learning units, addressing the Nat- 

(Pubs cont. on page 663)

George Eberhαrt is editor and compiler o/'The 
W hole Library Handbooks f o r  ALA Editions (1991, 
1995). He served as editor o f C&RL News from  
1980 to 1990.