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A spirations a n d  M e n ­
toring in an Academic En­
vironment: Women Fac­
ulty in Library and In­
form ation Science, by 
M ary N iles M aack and N
Joanne Passet (216 pages,
March 1994), focuses on 
three themes concerning 

Public
women in library education: 
aspirations and career devel­
opment; awareness o f the G eorge M
opportunities and obstacles 
that women face in an aca­
dem ic environm ent; and 
mentoring as it affects those being mentored 
and the approaches open to women to become 
mentors. Commentaries on the topic are pro­
vided by Toni Carbo Bearman, Phyllis Dain, 
Margaret Stieg, Kathleen McCook, and Jane 
Robbins. The book costs $49-95 from Green­
w ood Press, 88 Post Road West, P.O. Box 5007, 
Westport, CT 06881-5007. ISBN 0-313-27836-9.

Black Noise: Rap Music and  Black Cul­
ture in Contemporary America, by Tricia 
Rose (237 pages, April 1994), takes a serious 
look at the social, cultural, and political impli­
cations o f rap music and hip hop culture. The 
author, an assistant professor o f Africana stud­
ies and history at N ew  York University, focuses 
on four areas that define rap: its origins in the 
N ew  York postindustrial urban terrain o f the 
1970s; rap’s musical and technological innova­
tions; rap’s racial politics, institutional critiques, 
and media and institutional responses; and rap’s 
sexual politics, in particular female rappers’ 
critiques o f men and the feminist debates that 
surround women rappers. Rose views rap as 
an essentially positive musical expression that 
continues the improvisation, narration, oratory, 
and emotion o f other forms o f African-Ameri- 
can music. Copies may be ordered for $35.00 
from Wesleyan/University Press o f N ew  En­
gland, 23 S. Main St., Hanover, NH 03755. ISBN 
0-8195-5271-2.

The Concise O x fo rd  D ictionary o f Prov­
erbs, by John Simpson (316 pages, April 1994), 
provides the origins o f hundreds o f traditional 
sayings that have earned for themselves a place 
in the English language. For example, “You 
can’t tell a book by its cover” dates from 1929

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and “Facts are stubborn 
things” from 1732. A handy 
guide that will earn its place 
on ready-reference shelves. 
A copy may be purchased 
for $8.95 (paper) from Ox­

tions
ford University Press, 200 
Madison Ave., N ew  York, 
N Y  10016. ISBN 0-19- 
280002-7.

Holidays, Festivals, andEberhart
Celebrations of the World

_____________  Dictionary, com piled by
Sue Ellen Thompson and 

arbara W. Carlson (536 pages, April 1994), 
escribes nearly 1,500 popular, ethnic, civic, 
istorical, sports, and religious holidays and fes­
ivals celebrated throughout the world. Inter­
ational travelers may wish to plan their trips 
o include such events as the National Humor 
nd Satire Festival in Gabrovo, Bulgaria (late 
ay-early June); the Rose o f Tralee Beauty 
ontest in County Kerry, Ireland (late summer); 

he Anastenaria fire-walking ceremony in Agia 
leni, Greece (May 21-23); and, o f course, the 
nnual Bottle Kicking and Hare Pie Scramble, 

n Hallaton, Lancashire (Easter Monday). Edu­
ational, entertaining, and multicultural! A copy 
s $48.00 from Omnigraphics, Inc., Penobscot 
ldg., Detroit, MI 48226. ISBN 1-55888-768-7.

In Their Footsteps: The A m erican Visions
uide to African-American Heritage Sites,
y Henry Chase (584 pages, April 1994), cov­
rs nearly 1,000 notable African-American points 
f interest in North America, including muse­
ms, cultural centers, churches, cemeteries, 
arks, monuments, and the homes o f literary 
nd historical figures. Along with information 
n hours, entrance fees, and directions, the 
ook offers colorful anecdotes and detailed 
ackground information on the personalities 
nd history behind each site. The descriptions 
re enticingly written to lure the casual reader 

into visiting the sites, from the Delta Blues Mu­
eum to the Tumwater Pioneer Cemetery. Each 
f the regions represented in the book is intro­

duced with an original essay by such African- 
merican writers as Gloria Naylor and Ishmael 

Reed. This excellent guide may be ordered for 
$35.00 from Henry Holt, 115 W. 18th St., New 
ork, N Y 10011. ISBN 0-8050-3246-0.

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The Legal Researcher's Desk Reference,
1994-1995, edited by Arlene L. Eis (421 pages,
January 1994), is a sourcebook o f information
on the federal government, state and interna­
tional agencies, law library suppliers, associa­
tions, law schools, legal periodicals, and other
legal topics. Most sections are directory-type
listings with full addresses, telephone and fax
numbers. Among the sections added in this
edition are: a directory o f electronic public ac­
cess to U.S. courts, Canadian court informa­
tion, foreign bar associations, 
presidential libraries, library 
phone numbers fo r law  
schools, Internet providers, 
and Continuing Legal Edu­
cation providers. Information 
is current as o f October 1993.
The directory costs $54.00 
(plus $5.00 shipping) from 
Infosources Publishing, 140 
Norma Rd., Teaneck, NJ 
07666. ISBN 0-939486-31-8.

M astering Inform ation
in the New Century, by
Marvin J, Cetron and Owen 
D avies (94 pages, April 
1994), forecasts the develop­
ment o f the Internet and dis­
cusses the changes it will 
bring: by 2000, 50% o f all 

Nat Love, or “Dservice workers will be col­
born in a slave lecting, analyzing, synthesiz­
then lit out for 

ing, storing, and retrieving became a celebr
information; by 1999, any­ In Their Footstep
one equipped with a trans­
ceiver the size o f a cellular phone will be able
to send a message anywhere in the world; by
2000, personal “knowbots” will be in the home.
These and other information trends are out
lined by two info-futurists. Copies are $31.0
(SLA members, $25.00) from the Special Librar
ies Assoc., 1700 Eighteenth St., N.W., Wash
ington, DC 20009-2508. ISBN 0-87111-431-3.

The Nation's G reat Library: H erbert Put­
nam and the Library of Congress, 1899
1939, by Jane Aikin Rosenberg (235 pages,
January 1994), examines the role o f the Librar
o f Congress in the development o f America
libraries into centers for learning that welcomed
scholars, researchers, teachers, students, an
the public. This history describes Librarian o
Congress Herbert Putnam’s desire to have L

 
 

 
 
 
 

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recognized as the national library and identi­
fies the LC’s role in the development o f librari- 
anship as a profession. Copies are $39-95 from 
the Univ. o f Illinois Press, 54 E. Gregory Dr., 
Champaign, IL 61820. ISBN 0-252-02001-4.

V ietn am  W a r  Films, edited byjean-jacques 
Malo and Tony Williams (567 pages, May 1994), 
is an exhaustive filmography and analysis o f 
683 films dealing directly or indirectly with the 
Vietnam War. The authors have included biker 

movies, westerns, science 
fiction, and World War II 
movies that treated Vietnam 
War themes inferentially. 
The list is not restricted to 
U.S. films— films from Aus­
tralia, France, Great Britain, 
Hong Kong, South Africa, 
and Vietnam, among others, 
offer a broader perspective 

Ē and a necessary contrast to 
i American films. Because o f 
s the American cultural em­
£ bargo against Vietnam, only 
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8 films have been screened in 

the U.S. Appendices include -|C
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a country o f origin; lists o f di­
u rectors, actors, screenwriters 

dwood Dick,” was and their films; and films 
bin in Tennessee, that could not be examined 
nsas in 1869 and 

for this book. The analysis ed cowboy. (From 
accompanying each film is ; Henry Holt, 1994.)
excellent. Copies are $55.00 

from McFarland & Co., Inc., Box 611, Jefferson, 
NC 28640. ISBN 0-89950-766-2.

The Y e llo w  Book: A  C entenary Exhibi­
tion, by Margaret D. Stetz and Mark Samuels 
Lasner (64 pages, April 1994), is an exhibition 
catalog that commemorates the 100th anniver­
sary o f The Yellow Book, the most important 
British magazine o f the 1890s that encouraged 
developments in literary form that went be­
yond the conventional and shaped the genre 
o f the short story. Published by the Harvard 
College Library in conjunction with the exhibi­
tion held at the Houghton Library in 1994, the 
catalog details the history o f the magazine. A 
copy is $11.00 postpaid from The Houghton 
Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 
02138. ISBN 0-914630-13-X. ■

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