ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 530 /C&RL News ■ July/August 1998 N e w P u b l i c a t i o n s George M. Eberhart Am erican Music in the Tw entieth Cen­ tury, by Kyle Gann (400 pages, December 1997), surveys the art music composed in the United States from the tone poems of Charles Ives to the total ism of Mikel Rouse. Writ ten for the general reader with a basic knowledge of music, the book covers ultramodernism in the 1920s, populism in the 1930s, experimen- talism, atonality, John Cage and the New York School, post-Cage conceptualism, minimalism, new romanticism, electronic music, rock and jazz fusion, postminimalism, and totalism. Each chapter offers a discussion of recommended musical examples and concise composer bi­ ographies. An essential guide for those who want to move beyond Mahler and Brahms. $39.00. Schirmer Books. ISBN 0-02-864655-X. Schirmer has also published a revised, con­ cise edition of Daniel Kingman’s A m erican M usic: A P a n o r a m a (433 pages, March 1998), which covers folk and ethnic music, blues, country, rock, popular sacred music, pop from colonial times to the present, jazz, and classical music. Though written as a text­ book, it is equally useful as a quick reference source. $25.00. ISBN 0-02-864614-2. C h a r g in g an d C o lle c t in g Fees and Fines, by Murray S. Martin and Betsy Park (146 pages, May 1998), offers suggestions for a cost-benefit analysis of fee structures for cir­ culation services, photocopying, interlibrary loan, reference services, Internet access, co­ operative library services, and other library cost centers. The authors’ approach is a practical one, with many checklists and worksheets. $49.95. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 1-55570-318-6. Chinese A m erican Names: Tradition and Transition, by Emma Woo Louie (230 pages, July 1998), explains the mysteries of how Chinese immigrants acquired American­ ized names like Lee, Woo, or Chen. The first section of the book describes traditional Chi­ nese naming conventions, while others ex­ plore names as clues to regional origin, Chi- George M. Eberhart is associate e d ito r o f American Libraries; e-mail: geberhart@ ala.org nese-American name styles and customs, and identifying a Chinese surname character. An appendix provides a list of common surnames and their Chinese characters. $32.50. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0418-3. If Chinese ethnic groups are your inter­ est, consult An E th n o h is to r ic α l D ic tio ­ n a r y o f C hina, by James S. Olson (434 pages, March 1998). Every significant anthro­ pological and linguistic group is described here, not just the 55 minority “nationalities” officially recognized by the People’s Repub­ lic. An extensive essay on China’s largest ethnic group, the Han, covers their history from the Neolithic to the 1990s. $89.50. Greenwood. ISBN 0-313-28853-4. The International Director of Univer­ sity Histories, edited by Carol Summerfield and Mary Elizabeth Devine (780 pages, April 1998), is actually a collection of historical es­ says on 168 selected academic institutions worldwide. The editors have chosen diverse types of universities with differing education requirements, regional demands, and philo­ sophical goals. Slightly less than half are U.S. schools, allowing for comparisons with a wide set of overseas counterparts. Histories of older institutions are not limited to 19th- and 20th- century summaries; for example, the entry for Cairo’s Al-Azhar University starts right in at its founding in 972 A.D. A comprehensive index enhances access. $125.00. Fitzroy Dearborn, 70 E. Walton St., Chicago, IL 60611, ISBN 1- 884964-23-0. A S te p h e n C ra n e E n c y c lo p e d ia , by Stanley Wertheim (413 pages, December 1997), catalogs the life, writings, friends, and activities of this American journalist and novelist who, though best known for his Civil War novel The R e d B a d g e o f C o u r­ a g e (1895), was one of the first to write realistically about urban slums and the re­ treat of the frontier. This well-organized and comprehensive guide is an essential pur­ chase for collections of American history and fiction of the 1890s. $85.00. Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-29692-8. mailto:geberhart@ala.org C&RL News ■ July/August 1998 / 531 D isaster Response and P la n n in g fo r L i­ braries, by Miriam B. Kahn (128 pages, 1998), is filled with practical advice on planning for and recovering from various types of disas­ ters. Emphasizing the importance of a detailed, workable disaster plan, Kahn enumerates the duties of a disaster response team and recom­ mends that priorities for recovery be in place before a disaster occurs. The book is filled with suggestions on how to salvage different media, checklists and forms, and contacts for additional assistance and supplies. $34.20. ALA Editions. ISBN 0-8389-0716-4. The Encyclopedia o f Mummies, by Bob Brier (256 pages, February 1998), should serve as a useful reference for all those questions in­ spired by undergraduate interests in Egyptology and horror films. Mummies created by both natu­ ral and artificial means are included, along with mummy lore and legend. A directory of muse­ ums that house mummies and an adequate sub­ ject bibliography are included. $35.00. Facts on File. ISBN 0-8160-3108-8. A much more detailed study of the 20th- century preservation of human remains is M odern Mummies, by Christine Quigley (263 pages, June 1998), which incorporates carni­ val mummies, religious incorruptibility, freak accidents, mortuary science, and cryogenics. $35.00. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0492-2. The E v o lu tio n o f th e Book, by OCLC founder Frederick G. Kilgour (180 pages, April 1998), reviews the history of book pro­ duction from clay tablets to computers, span­ ning roughly 4,500 years of civilization. As might be expected, the role of libraries in knowledge dissemination is emphasized. Kilgour identifies seven “punctuated equi­ libria” in the history of the book: clay tab­ lets (2500 B.C.), papyrus rolls (2000 B.C.), codices (150 A.D.), printing (1450), steam power (1800), offset printing (1970), and electronic books (2000). Other inventions such as paper, eyeglasses, indexes, title pages, typewriters, and hypertext are ex­ amined in context. $35.00. Oxford Univer­ sity. ISBN 0-19-511 859-6. If this title gets you excited about bibliology, then you will also want to read C uneiform to C om puter: A H isto ry o f Reference Sources, by William A. Katz (417 pages, April 1998). Beginning with the premise that “Reference books reflect the will of the compiler who … mirrored the place and period in which he lived,” Katz delves deeply into reference history to re­ veal the origin and development of ency­ clopedias, quotation books, almanacs, hand­ books, dictionaries, maps, travel guides, bi­ ographies, bibliographies, indexes, and gov­ ernment documents. Every page is filled with 532 / C&RL News ■ July/August 1998 facts that you can drop casually at the next cocktail party or budget hearing: “Chatty chronicles, as much fiction as fact, became the popular reference works of the 13th and 14th centuries”; “The Great Exhibition of All Nations, held in London in 1851, was not only symbolic of the Industrial Age, but a gold mine for guidebook publishers”; and “The first modern indexes were conceived as a method of analyzing the contents of the Bible.” $46.00. Scarecrow. ISBN 0-8108- 3290-9. The First Men in th e M oon, by H. G. Wells and edited by Leon Stover (321 pages, August 1998), is the latest in a series of texts of Wells’ first editions, extensively annotated and analyzed by Stover, who argues per­ suasively that the 1901 novel is in keeping with the author’s espousal of Saint-Simonian scientific utopianism. The notes demonstrate that Wells was well-read in science as well as in the literature of fanciful travel beyond the earth. Future critical texts of The Invis­ ible Man, War o f the Worlds, and When the Sleeper Wakes are p la n n e d . $55.00. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0411-6. G rasses, Se d g e s, Rush es & Ferns o f B rita in and N orthern Europe, by R. Fit­ ter, et al. (256 pages, 1984), is just one of the many pocket nature guides, field guides, and safari guides published by HarperCollins UK that are for the first time being distrib­ uted in the United States. Although the spe­ cies described are European, there is a con­ siderable overlap with North America. The taxonomic and biological notes, as well as the detailed illustrations, are excellent throughout the series, which covers both European flora and fauna. For a complete list of titles, contact Whitman Distribution Company, 10 Water Street , P.O. Box 513, Lebanon, NH 03766; (800) 353-3730. The L ife an d T im e s o f C o n s ta n tin e th e G reat, by Dimitrios G. Kousoulas (511 pages, December 1997), tells the story of the first Roman emperor to promote Chris­ tianity, the first to be baptized (by an Arian bishop one week before his death in 337), and the first to treat the empire as a family possession. Kousoulas is equally familiar with classic sources and modern scholarship on Constantine, and he recounts the bio­ graphical details in an easy-going manner, supplemented by notes, maps and coins of the period, and a bibliography. Find out here why the Milvian Bridge was so important in European history. $24.95. Rutledge Books, Box 315, 8 F.J. Clarke Circle, Bethel, CT 06801-0315. ISBN 1-887750-61-4 The New M e xico A tla s & G a ze tte e r (72 pages, May 1998) is the latest state to­ pographic atlas in the DeLorme series, which has been inching its way towards covering all 50 states by the year 2000. Company pub­ licist Andy Sturtevant said that when it is done mapping the United States, DeLorme will develop atlases for other countries, possibly in Eastern Europe where road at­ lases are scarce. The level of detail that goes into these maps is prodigious— they are es­ sential tools for any cross-country travel by foot or car, and indispensable purchases for map libraries. Other recent atlases are South Carolina, Georgia, and Iowa (April 1998); Indiana and Oklahoma (March 1998); and Missouri (January 1998). Prices vary, but most are $16.95. DeLorme, Two DeLorme Drive, Yarmouth, ME 04096. O l’ Blue Eyes: A Fran k S in a tra E n cy ­ clo p e dia, by Leonard Mustazza (436 pages, April 1998), was in print prior to Sinatra’s death, so the author can’t be accused of op­ portunism; however, it is not a true “every­ thing you’d ever want to know” encyclo­ pedia. Primarily consisting of annotated lists of all Sinatra songs, albums, films, radio and TV shows, W eb sites, major concerts, awards, and recording sessions, the book is more vita than biography. Richard Ackelson’s F ra n k S in a tra : A C o m p le te R e c o r d in g H is to r y (McFarland, 1992) has much the same session data, with the addition of bios of composers, lyricists, and arrangers. $59.95. Greenwood. ISBN 0-313-30486-6. R ocks fro m Space, by O . Richard Norton (447 pages, 2d ed., April 1998), is a signifi­ cant revision of the 1994 edition that up­ dates the history and science of meteorites. Not only has Norton expanded his sections on Martian meteorites and asteroid impacts, he has also included new groups of mete­ orites, the most current classification C&RL News ■ July/August 1998 / 533 schemes, and many new photographs of rare specimens. When I was growing up there were only a handful of meteorite books, most of them out of date and supertechnical, that left me with a lifelong taste for reliable informa­ tion on tektites, chondrites, and impact cra­ ters. This book— along with John Burke’s Cos­ mic Debris: Meteorites in History (University of California, 1986)— fills that void. $30.00. Mountain Press. ISBN 0-87842-373-7. Th e S ilv e r C a n v a s : D a g u e r r e o t y p e M a ste rp ie ce s fro m th e J. Paul G e tty M useum , by Bates Lowry and Isabel Barrett Lowry (240 pages, May 1998), offers an in­ trig u in g lo o k at the im p act of the daguerreotype’s discovery on the scientific, social, and artistic movements of the 1840s and 1850s. Seventy-eight images from the Getty Museum’s photographic collection are reproduced, most of them never published before; the daguerreotypes of an “early op­ eration using ether for anesthesia,” “man with open mouth” (used to illustrate tooth decay for oral surgeons), and “portrait of a [black] nurse and young [white] child, about 1850” are quite striking. The authors pro­ vide an insightful history of the daguerreian process and successfully convey the excite­ ment it provoked in Europe and America when its many uses were recognized. $80.00. Getty Trust Publications, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 599, Los Angeles, CA 90049- 1682. ISBN 0-89236-368-1. W orld H o lid a y, F e stiv a l, and C a le n ­ d a r Books, edited by Tanya Gulevich (475 pages, May 1998), describes 1,057 English- language books on religious festivals, re­ gional holidays, and calendar systems. Es­ se ntially an a n n o ta te d b ib lio g ra p h ic supplement to Sue Ellen Thompson’s Holi­ day Symbols 1998 and Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations of the World Dictionary, this volume includes a list of Web sites fea­ turing holidays as well as comprehensive author, title, and subject indexes. ISBN, Dewey, and LC class numbers are provided for most titles. $55.00. Omnigraphics. ISBN 0-7808-0073-7. 534 / C&RL News ■ July/August 1998 C H O IC E 'S O u tsta n d in g A ca d e m ic B o o k s, 1 9 9 2 -1 9 9 7 : R e v ie w s o f S c h o la rly Titles that E v e ry L ib r a r y Sh o u ld O w n Rebecca A. Bartlett, editor This essential volume brings together reviews of the more than 3,000 titles singled out in the last five years by C H O IC E Magazine for its prestigious Outstanding Academic Books award. Distinguished for their excellence in scholarship, relevance, and original­ ity, the titles included in this discipline-based collection should be accessible to every undergraduate student. An essential resource for all librarians and faculty involved with collection development. Casebound. List price: $85.00; member price: $68.00; ISBN 0-8389-7929-7 A ca d e m ic L ib r a r y C e n trality: U ser Success T h ro u g h S e rv ice , A cce ss, a n d Trad itio n : P u b licatio n s in L ib ra ria n s h ip N o . 5 0 Deborah J. Grimes Libraries are at the heart of institutions of higher learning— or are they? This new volume in A C R L ’s Publications in Librarianship series examines this commonly accepted metaphor. Through an analysis of organizational theory and on the basis of interviews with a cohort of major leaders in higher education to learn what their expectations are for the role of the academic library, the author brings new insights into criteria for academic libraries to help users achieve success. List price: $30.00; member price $25.00; ISBN 0-8389-7950-5 D e sig n s fo r A ctive Le a rn in g : A S o u rce b o o k o f C la ssro o m S tra te g ie s fo r Inform ation Education Gail Gradowski, Loanne Snavely, and Paula Dempsey, editors A total of 54 designs for successful active learning strategies for library instruction in the classroom, covering five areas, Basic Library Instruction, Searching Indexes and Online Catalogs, Search Strategies for the Research Process, Evaluation of Library Resources, and Discipline-Oriented Instruction. Also included is a computer disk with the forms, handouts and teaching aids which can be replicated for use in the classroom and used as guides for designing activities that are appropriate to a local setting. Each includes a description of the activity or strategy, the context in which it is used, handouts and other classroom materials, and classroom time required, plus the name and institutional address of the person who developed the model. Useful for any librarian involved in instruction from the high school to the college and research level. List price: $35.00; member price: $30.00; ISBN 0-8389-7946-7 To W rite: ALA Order Fulfillment, 155 N. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606 Order Call: 800-545-2433, (press 7) Fax: 312-836-9958