These guidelines remain in compliance with AACR2, 2nd, 1988 revision, as far as is possible, but it was necessary to depart from AACR2R because of the unique nature of these materials and because of the necessity of treating interactive multimedia works as entire entities.

The guidelines were tested out by having volunteer catalogers use the draft guidelines to catalog a packet of five to six surrogate examples of interactive multimedia works in a two-week period and send their comments to the Task Force. The guidelines are clear and seem to cover every aspect of cataloging this material. However, the catalog-card style examples are in one section, and the MARC-tagged examples for the same titles are in a separate section. This makes it necessary to flip back and forth to see both forms for one title. It would have been more useful to have the MARC-tagged example directly follow the catalog card-style example for the same title.

The glossary and the selected annotated bibliography of other resource materials on interactive media are also useful. It would have been interesting to include a discussion of why the Computer Files format was chosen to catalog this material, although after format integration, the choice of format will not be so important.

Published in 1994 by: American Library Association, Chicago, IL (ix, 43 p.) ISBN 0-8389-3445-5. $12.00 pbk. ALA member price $10.00.

Reviewed by:
Katherine L. Rankin
University of Nevada, Las Vegas