Latin American Studies: A Basic Guide to Sources by Robert A. McNeilReview by: Ketty RodríguezThe Library Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Jan., 1991), pp. 123-124Published by: The University of Chicago PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4308568 .

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SHORTER NOTICES 123

are: James W. Liesener's A Systematic Process for Planning Media Programs (Chi- cago: American Library Association, 1976); Jacqueline C. Mancall and M. Carl Drott's Measuring Student Information Use (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1983); Phillip M. Turner's Helping Teachers Teach (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1985); Ruth Ann Davies's The School Libraiy Media Program: Instruc- tional Forcefor Excellence (New York: Bowker, 1979); Martin Rossoff's The Library in High School Teaching (New York: Wilson, 1961); and Joanne Troutner's The Media Specialist, the Microcomputer, and the Curriculum (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1983).

All of the national standards for school library programs since 1920 are listed, although only the most recent 1988 publication is annotated. No space is given to major government-sponsored documents such as the Knapp School Libraries Project. Recent publications, such as the excellent collection of readings com- piled by Frances Beck McDonald, The Emerging School Library Media Program (Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1988), seemed to have either not come to Rudin's attention or slipped past her selection criteria in some manner.

Most of the important titles published during the past decade are included, but this annotated bibliography also reflects a gathering of whatever the publish- ers had to offer over the past several years. As such, it does not represent a highly selective listing of the most important books related to the evolution of school library media programs in the United States over the past seventy years.-Daniel Callison, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana Uni- versity

Latin American Studies: A Basic Guide to Sources. Edited by Robert A. McNeil; associate editor, Barbara G. Valk. 2d ed. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1990. Pp. xii+458. $42.50. ISBN 0-8108-2236-9.

The Standing Conference on National and University Libraries (SCONUL) of the United Kingdom sponsored this scholarly and comprehensive basic guide to sources of Latin American studies in an enlarged and radically revised second edition prepared by thirty-six librarians and area specialists, nine located in the United States and the rest in the United Kingdom. The work encompasses Latin America in its broadest definition, including the Caribbean as well as some aspects of Hispanics in the United States.

The objective of the publication is to identify and describe the library re- sources available to Latin Americanists throughout the English-speaking world and to facilitate access to these collections, located in Great Britain, Europe, and the United States, by identifying the types of material held and explaining the organization and classification schemes used.

Everyone from undergraduates to scholars will find something of interest in this book, ranging from instructions for understanding the intricacies of Spanish and Portuguese names or the phone codes for all of Latin America to guides for locating some of the most celebrated manuscripts in existence-the Mexican c6dices.

The addition of various indexes to this new edition is most helpful. There is a subject index including references to institutions as well as topics and a reference source index that includes an author-title index of publications cited in the work.

As one might expect in a work covering such a vast area and which aims to be comprehensive, there will be omissions and errors, and not all areas will receive the same coverage. In general, the coverage of sources in Europe for

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the English-speaking researcher is the weakest in almost every one of the six parts. Certain countries of the Caribbean and Central America are given short shrift. For example, the basic work for researchers edited by Kenneth Grieb and published under the sponsorship of the Conference of Latin American Historians (CLAH) entitled Research Guide to Central America and the Caribbean (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984) and that by Kenneth E. Ingram: Sources for West Indian Studies: A Suppkmenta?y Listing with Particular Reference to Manu- script Sources (Zug: Inter-Documentation Company, 1983), are not mentioned. Finally, one minor error: the Guatemalan newspaper El Imparcial, listed under "Leading Current Latin American and West Indian Newspapers" (p. 187), ceased publication in 1986. However, none of these omissions detracts signifi- cantly from this highly commendable publication.-Ketty Rodriguez, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University

Codes of Professional Responsibility. Edited by Rena A. Gorlin. 2d ed. Washington, D.C.: BNA Books, 1990. Pp. xvi+555. ISBN 0-87179-641-4.

The 1986 edition of this work was termed the first compilation of codes of professional e-thics of major professions of the United States. It includes ethical rules of representative organizations in the legal, business, health, education, and government service professions. The 1981 Statement on Professional Ethics of the American Library Association (ALA) is included.

This needed revised and enlarged second edition is limited to organizations in business, health, and law. Though the number of associations covered (thirty- seven) has more than doubled since the earlier edition, the narrower focus means that the ALA code and some others have been dropped. (However, the code of the American Association of Law Librarians is included in the law section.) Editor Rena A. Gorlin has added useful appendices on organizational resources on ethics (for example, the American Academy of Medical Ethics) and periodical resources (for example, Bioethics Update). Two extensive indexes, organized by issues and professions, are helpful.

Though Gorlin states that "most of the codes of ethics appear in full text" (p. vii), she does not specify how the organizations were selected other than to note that those included are not necessarily the only representatives of the profession. For each organization, she reports essential information, for example, their ethics committees, adoption date for the code, activities and goals of the organi- zation, and (especially interesting) implementation and enforcement of the code.

Recently, I had occasion to use the volume to locate that part of the code of the National Association of Social Workers that has to do with publications and authorship. Both the issues and the professions indexes were useful; the search was easy and successful, and information was also obtained on the general lack of inclusion of the subject of publications and authorship in codes of ethics included in this volume.

For anyone interested in codes of professional ethics, this volume is fascinat- ing. As a reference volume, it should prove handy to a wide range of research- ers, especially in law, business, and health.-Judith Serebnick, School of Library and Infor7nation Science, Indiana University

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