The Business of Book Publishing: Papers by Practitioners by Elizabeth A. Geiser; Arnold Dolin;Gladys S. TopkisReview by: Mary BiggsThe Library Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Jan., 1986), p. 96Published by: The University of Chicago PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4307958 .

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96 THE LIBRARY QUARTERLY

Native American Archives: An Introduction. By JOHN A. FLECKNER. Chicago: Soci- ety of American Archivists, 1984. Pp. viii+ 70. $7.00.

This booklet was produced under a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to promote the establishment of archival programs by Native Americans. It provides an introduction to what constitutes a tribal archives. Brief chapters are devoted to basic archival principles, records management, unofficial records, and photographs and sound recordings. A final chapter deals with the actual establishment of such an archives. Because of the book's brevity, the advice given is necessarily generalized. To guide further study, the appendices contain a bibliography, sources of assistance, and examples of archival forms.-Mary Lee Ervin Boyle, Oklahoma Historical Society

The Business of Book Publishing: Papers by Practitioners. Edited by ELIZABETH A.

GEISER and ARNOLD DOLIN, with GLADYS S. ToPKIS. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1985. Pp. x+446. $38.50. ISBN 0-89158-998-8.

This collection of papers, generated by the University of Denver Publishing Institute, includes contributions from twenty-eight highly placed personnel in scholarly, trade, textbook, and reference book publishing, plus three bookselling specialists, one literary agent, one academician, and one editor from Publishers Weekly. As the book's title indicates, the authors focus on the practicalities and processes of book publishing, and a wide range of these are discussed: editorial responsibilities, the agent's role, publishing-contract law, book production and design, marketing, bookstores ("personal" and chain), wholesalers, the "library market," and "major categories" of publishing (children's, textbook, mass- market, reference, and so on). Concluding the volume are a discussion of career opportunities in publishing, annotated lists of book-publishing courses offered through academia and "books about the book industry," a list of publishers, and an index.

As is almost always the case in multiauthored works, there is some unevenness in depth and style, but the collection is engrossing overall and recommended to people considering a career in the industry and as a textbook in courses about publishing. I teach such a course to prospective librarians and will use this book as a supplement to, but not a replacement for, the standard overview by John P. Dessauer, which remains the most concise and comprehensive: Book Publishing: What It Is, What It Does, 2d ed. (New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1981).-Mary Biggs, University of Chicago

Catalogue collectif des impressions Quebe(oises, 1 764-1820. By MILANDA VLACH and YOLANDA BUONO. Quebec: Bibliotheque nationale, 1984. Pp. xxxiii + 446. $40.00. ISBN 2-551-08919-0.

This union catalog includes 1,1 15 entries of books, pamphlets, and broad- sheets printed in Quebec from 1764 to 1820. Although not exhaustive, it lists over 90 percent of the works printed before 1820. The holdings of several libraries in Quebec were consulted: the various university libraries, the Montreal City Library, the library of the Seminaire de Quebec, and the Bibliotheque national du Quebec. The entries are organized by author and title in AACR2/LC format and include notes on specific copies in the contributing libraries. There are eight indices: title, author, subject, genre, place of publication, chronological, printers, and provenance.-Richard W. Clement, University of Chicago

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