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Title: Senseless waste of trees
Review: This is a pared-down reprint of _A Guide to Library Service in Mathematics_, which is still available. That book was a guide to math librarianship plus an annotated bibliography of materials. The annotations are merely "This is a book about...", helpful before the Internet, but now completely worthless. If you want to find a good book, you would now browse the reviews on Amazon. The only part of the 1993 book that is still worth reading is the advice for librarians, which is just what was cut from this new edition. So, I can't see any justification for the existence of this book. Besides that, the paper, printing, and binding are poor. I suppose the reason why they decided to publish this is to compete with Dekker, which has just come out with _Using the Mathematics Literature_.
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