Bearman that is given as ''1887'' on page 26; and the work of the late Gerald [sic] Salton is mentioned on page 91, while not one of his myriad publications is References cited either correctly (as Gerard Salton) or incorrectly in the references at the end of the chapter on ''Bibliographic Informa- Bookstein, A. (1997). Informetric distributions III. Ambiguity and randomness. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, tion.'' In fairness, a couple of Salton's earlier works are cited 47, 2-10.
elsewhere by Williams and Flynn on pages 11 and 82, respectively, but readers must work to find them. In fact, readers may wonder why a ''must-have'' book on information science has no indexes. Allen Kent is a deserving elder statesman in library and information science, and he is a Pittsburgh man. Some eyebrows Information Science: Still an Emerging Discipline. James G. may be raised because he appears as a contributor in a book Williams and Toni Carbo, eds. Pittsburgh, PA: Cathedral Publishthat is dedicated to him; however, his lighthearted closing chaping; 1997: 231 pp. Price: $26.95. (ISBN 1-887969-03-9.) ter called ''The Making of an Encyclopedia'' rewards readers with anecdotes dealing with the Encyclopedia of Library and The proliferation of specialties in information science, as in Information Science, which Kent initiated in 1965 and edited other interdisciplinary fields, has served to isolate practitioners for over a quarter of a century. His chapter serves as a fitting and scholars alike, making it very difficult to write general finale for a book that is essentially an explication of the Pittsbooks in the area. Authors must constantly update or even tranburgh approach to information science. scend their original education and training, remaining conversant with an imposing array of subjects while avoiding either of two extremes: Looking like dilettantes, or succumbing to the crippling notion that they must be Renaissance people.