Russkie kollektivnye zagolovki. Russian Corporate Headings: A List of over One ThousandRussian Headings for Official and Semi-Official Bodies, Based Chiefly on the Holdings of theUnion Library Catalogue, with an Attempt at Their Identification for Cataloguing Purposesby Arthur B. BertholdReview by: J. C. M. HansonThe Library Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Jul., 1939), p. 361Published by: The University of Chicago PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4302619 .

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REVIEWS 36I

been able, in less than eleven years, not only to publish these comprehensive rules in two editions but also to print for publication over twenty thousand catalog entries. These accomplishments cannot fail to have a far-reaching effect on the development of catalogs and cataloging in Catholic as well as in other libraries. The results have amply justified the decision of the Car- negie Corporation in 1927 to aid in the reorganization of the Vatican Library.

J. C. M. HANSON Sister Bay, Wisconsin

Russkie kollektivnye zagolovki. Russian corporate headings: a list of over one thousand Russian headings for official and semi-official bodies, based chiefly on the holdings of the Union Library Catalogue, with an attempt at their identification for cataloguing purposes. By ARTHUR B. BERTHOLD. Phila- delphia: Union Library Catalogue of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area, 1939. PP. [7]+52+ix. $2.00 (distributed by H. W. Wilson). A few months ago James B. Childs sent out his Bibliography of official

publications and the administrative system in Latin American countries. Such a guide must have received a warm welcome not only in government offices but particularly in libraries that cannot afford the catalogs of the British Museum, of the Bibliothdque Nationale, the Library of Congress depository catalog, the German Gesamtkatalog, and similar reference works from which the information condensed by Mr. Childs in forty-four pages might be ex- tracted-at least in part. The correct names of departments, bureaus, and other government offices of South and Central American countries have long constituted one of the many problems of catalogers who accept the principle of impersonal authorship.

Now Mr. Berthold has performed a similar service in giving the names of Russian official and semiofficial bodies which have so often puzzled our Ameri- can catalogers. He has gone farther than Childs in that he has included, also, names of academies, societies, and institutions and names of political divi- sions, cities, and other places. As for transliteration, he follows the scheme established by the Library of Congress.

Guides like those of Berthold and Childs do not attract much attention even in our own professional circles. They will, nevertheless, prove of great value to those who know how to appreciate them-in this case, especially to the assistants charged with the preparation of entries for government publica- tions. And they will do much to counteract the charge of many friends on the other side of the water-and even some on this side-that the acceptance by Cutter, Jewett, et al. of the principle of corporate entry (now generally adhered to in American and many other libraries) was a grave error and has led to the development of a system of cataloging that will, in time, prove so complicated and confusing that it must necessarily break down of its own weight. J. C. M. HANSON

Sister Bay, Wisconsin

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