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186 MARTA TARNAWSKYthought-out and practical organization of material. The fact that the book is nicelyproduced and distributed by a recognized and experienced American publisherassures a wide distribution to academic and large public libraries in North America.No pioneering effort of such scope can escape problems, errors, and omissions.The most serious problem with Wynar's guide is the index. A note at the head of theindex reads: "References are to entry numbers. Subsumed entries are indicated withan 'n' preceding the entry number. Variances in spelling of names are indicated asappropriate. Subject entries are in boldface type." 8 This note raises expectations thatthe index will provide retrievability by subject; that, in addition to the 1,084 mainentries, one could, by using the index, find authors and titles discussed in annotations;and that cross-references are provided to forms of names not adopted. This isnot the case. The boldface entries for subjects that do appear in the index are usuallyto broad categories that appear as headings of subchapters and are listed in the tableof contents (e.g., Agriculture, Archaeology, Chernobyl Disaster, Communist Party,Famine). True subject retrievability, however, is not provided. Let me give a fewexamples. Tuhan-Baranovsky. a Ukrainian economist of international renown, is thesubject of two separate entries; 9 there is an additional bibliographic note listing anumber of other studies of Tuhan-Baranovsky; 10 an additional article on Tuhan-Baranovsky is included in a collection of papers edited by I. S. Koropeckyj, whichhas a separate entry. 11 In the index, however, no subject entry is provided for"Tuhan-Baranovsky." The only listing in the index is for "Tuhan-Baranovsky'sTheories of Markets...," a title of a work mentioned in the text of an annotation. 12This example is not an aberration; it is typical. You will not find in the index anyentries under "Andrusiw," "Levytsky, Myron," "Cymbal," "Kriukow," "Krychevsky,Vasyl," or "Lassovsky, Volodymyr," even though monographs about theseartists are given separate entries, some with biographies and extensive annotations. 13Archipenko and Hnizdovsky are not given subject entries in the index, despiteseveral entries and extensive references to their work and to studies about them. 14What does appear in the index are titles of publications. Thus, you will not find"Andrusiw" or "Cymbal," but you will find the title "Peter Andrusiw" and "VictorCymbal" and, of course, many titles beginning with the name Archipenko: Archipenko,International Visionary and Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years, etc. Wynar'sindex was, obviously, never really intended as a subject index; the claim made in thepreliminary note is a positive disservice to the guide's user. The index, however,would be judged a failure even if it did not pretend to provide access by subject.While the authors and titles of main entries are retrievable, a substantial proportionof authors and titles listed in annotations is not. A couple of examples will suffice to891011121314Wynar, Guide, p. 365.Ibid., nos. 105 and 106.Ibid., note under no. 106.Ibid., no. 102.Ibid., note under no. 106.Ibid., nos. 61,63,64,69,75,72.Ibid., nos. 65,66,67,80.