Nonconventional Technical Information Systems in Current Use (Book Review)
Jesse Hauk Shera · College & Research Libraries · 1963
to Rico, with subdivisions by city.The directory tries to bring together in one place the component libraries in a system (e.g., the public library and its branches m a given city or the various faculties and institutes of a university), but it does not do so for universities with facilities in several cities.Each entry contains the following information: name and address of library, name of librarian, number of volumes, date established, type of library (public, university, school or special), subject specialization (only one or two given), and whether or not the library exchanges publications.The fact that the data is in Spanish should cause no problem to non-Spanish readers, because there is no text other than the preface, and the terms which occur in the listings are either cognates, or may be found quickly in any Spanish-English dictionary.The preface points out the difficulty of obtaining up-to-date information on the size of libraries and the names of their librarians, and a special note for the section devoted to Cuba warns that there is much pre-1959 information which could not be made current.This perhaps explains why some of the statistics presented are at vari-