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Business Index. September 1980— . M, each issue supersedes previous one. $1,860.00/yr. Information Access Corporation, 404 Sixth Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025. Ed.: Dennis Read. Circ: 1,000. ISSN 0273–3684. The era of indexes to library materials on computer‐output‐microfilm (COM) has arrived. Many libraries mark the era's beginning from the “freezing” of their card catalogs in response to that monumental act by the Library of Congress. COM has been widely used as the interim mode of bibliographic access to collections until online access can be provided. Libraries have also used a variety of types of equipment to view microform copies of material, such as newspapers. The Business Index uses a ROM COM Terminal.

ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES — UNITED STATES — DIRECTORIES Federal Yellow Book; A Loose‐Leaf Directory of Federal Departments and Agencies. 1976‐ . Updates are issued every two months, comprising at least two complete issues every twelve months. $130.00. Washington Monitor, Inc. 499 National Press Building, Washington, DC 20045. Ed.: Teri Calabrese. Circ.: unknown. Indexed: self‐indexed. LC 78‐642223. ISSN 0145‐6202. OCLC 266012. The Washington Monitor publishes two yellow books: the Congressional Yellow Book, a directory of members of Congress, committee assignments and staff; and the Federal Yellow Book, a loose‐leaf directory of the personnel in federal departments and agencies, including the White House and the Executive Office of the President. The loose‐leaf format enables the publisher to keep the information up to date by replacement pages issued every other month.

Shepard, Leslie A., ed. Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology; A Compendium of Information on the Occult Sciences, Magic, Demonology, Superstitions, Spiritism, Mysticism, Metaphysics, Psychical Science, and Parapsychology. 2d ed. 3 vols. Detroit: Gale, 1985. $245. 1,617p. ISBN 0–8103–0196–2. OCLC 10457831. As its title indicates, the Encyclopedia treats a wide range of topics. A reader can find in its three volumes information on witchcraft, spiritualism, the development of the field of parapsychology at Duke University, unidentified flying objects, and the Reverend Jim Jones. Like the first edition, this is based on two older, single‐volume works, the Encyclopedia of Occultism by Lewis Spence and the Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science by Nandor Fodor. Over three thousand entries from these books appear, largely intact, in the present work. A few minor editorial changes are made for clarity, and many minor inaccuracies are corrected. Moreover, additional sections, paragraphs, sentences, dates, or addresses are added where the editor feels there is a need for updating. The entries of Fodor and Spence are supplemented by over thirteen hundred new entries written by the editor. These articles largely reflect fields, events, persons, organizations, and periodicals of the period since the publication of the earlier volumes.

Although many library patrons seek information on the activities and earnings of corporations, some librarians have difficulty identifying the documents appropriate for such research. Aubrey W. Kendrick advises on selecting and obtaining corporate reports.