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comparable, current sources. Other than the Childs’ article mentioned above, there are only two

other sources: E. S. Brown’s Manual of Government Publications, United States and Foreign (1950) and UNESCO’s A Study of Current Bibliographies of National Official Publications (1959); both are out of date. Mr. Palic’s works are the essential tools for government document bibliography.

John Richardson Jr.

Graduate Library School Indiana University

Environmental Concerns: A Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications, 1971-1973. Pre- pared by Janet L. Burk and Stephen Hayes.

New Issues Press, Institute of Public Affairs, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, December 1975. 208 Pages.

Janet Burk and Stephen Hayes’ new bibliography should work to ease the job of both the librarian and the researcher in isolating the wealth of documents on the subject of the environment and pollution. In so doing, it should be welcomed by both librarians, particularly Federal Documents librarians, and by all persons concerned about environmental issues, and with the literature produced on the subject by the U.S. Government. However, if Environ- mental Concerns has a major flaw it is just that - that the compilation may, indeed, contain something to catch the eye and match the intellectual requirements of all those seeking materials on the subject of the environment. The potential for such wide appeal of this work is brought about by the effort of Burk and Hayes to apparently include in their bibliography, every citation relating to the topic of the environment and pollution that qualified under certain broad subject criteria and appeared in the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications 1971-1973. It is that characteristic of comprehensiveness that is at fault here, in that, it necessitates the inclusion of documents from the most general and ephemeral, to documents of the most scientific and/or technical in content and format. For example, the bibliography includes the title: Career in Environmental Health for Retiring Military Service Men, EPA, 1970, 8 pages, a very brief, glossy, fold out, that lists several environmentally related occupations and advises retired service men as to how to enter the field. The bibliog-

raphy also includes the title: An Electrochemical Method for Removal of Phosphates from Waste Waters, Department of the Interior, 1970, 47 pages; and the title: Oil/Sorbent Harvesting System for Use on Vessels of Opportunity, EPA, 1973, 99 pages. Both are highly technical papers and definitely oriented towards the scientific community. The point is that this all

inclusiveness that characterizes Environmental Concerns may tend to detract from the efficiency and popularity of the bibliography when used by individuals on at least the two extremes of the environmentally concerned spectrum; (i.e., the high school or even junior high school student interested only in introductory information, and let us say, the academic researcher interested primarily in scientific and technical reports.) Yet, in defense of the work, it might also be said, that at least with Environmental Concerns in hand the librarian or researcher need only plow through documents on the subject of the environment and not the multitude of topics represented in three years of the Monthly Catalog.

If the bibliography has another serious error (probably already obvious to the Federal Documents librarian) it is that a bibliography which contains all the documents on the subject of the environment, that appeared in the Monthly Catalog during the years 1971-1973, does

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not, in fact, contain a citation for all the U.S. Government publications on the subject of the environment for the period 1971-1973, as the titles might seem to have implied. To even contemplate such a bibliography is, perhaps, unreasonable and impractical. Even so, the user might be more pleased with the work had the authors selectively included documents on the environment that appeared in, at least, Government Reports Announcements (and that did not appear in the Monthly Catalog for the period 1971- 1973.)

Environmental Concerns contains approximately 1,800 citations, (a fact which, alone, should lend substantial weight to the bibliography.) The citations are grouped in rather broad catagories, as follows: (1) General - 413 entries; (2) Air Pollution - 169 entries; (3)

Herbicides/Pesticides - 72 entries; (4) Land Pollution - 27 entries; (5) Noise - 90 entries; (6) Radiation/Thermal - 86 entries; (7) Solid Waste - 161 entries; (8) Waste Water - 376 entries; and (9) Water Pollution - 493 entries.

Each entry consists of the year of the Monthly Catalog in which the entry appears, the Superintendent of Documents Number, the Monthly Catalog entry number, the title and sub-title, the author (if one appears, and only the first author of a multiple author entry is mentioned by name), the date of publication, the indication of availability, the issuing agency with subdivisions indicated, the pagination, and an indication of whether the item is indexed or

has a bibliography. There is both a subject index, and a personal author index. The personal author index

includes only the last name of the author, followed by the title of the publication and the

entry number. The majority of the entries are not annotated; however, very brief annotations are

reportedly supplied where the title does not give a clear indication of the subject matter.

Marc Galbraith Federal Document Librarian

Kansas State Library Topeka KS

Constitutional Aspects of Watergate: Documents & Materials. A. Stephen Boyan, Jr., editor. Volume I. Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana Publications, Inc. 1976. Pp. vi, 587. $40.

In this first of a projected four volumes, A. Stephen Boyan, Jr., has attempted to ascertain the meaning of the impeachment clause of the United States Constitution, Article II, Section 4, through the use of congressional documents, legal briefs, Farrand’s The Records of the Federal Convention, and The Federalist.

The haste with which this timely work was rushed to publication appears in the typo-

graphical errors in the two original portions of the work, a two-page introduction by Robert B. McKay and a twenty-four-page introduction by Boyan. The remainder of the volume is the result of photoduplication processes, preserving the material as well as its defects, which seem more numerous than is customary in United States publications.

A volume of this type serves its foremost function in providing easy access to documents difficult to obtain. Nothing in this volume falls into that category. Even the debates in the First Congress, normally taken from the Annals of Congress, are reproduced from H. R. Dot. No. 93-7, 93d Cong., 1st Sess. 7 (1973).

The impeachment of a president is a momentous action originating in various constitu- tional, moral, political and social beliefs and motives to accomplish diverse purposes. Volume upon volume of examination, explanation and justification of impeachment action and inaction