From Booklist
The bulk of the directory consists of an alphabetical listing of 1,212 think tanks, with each entry including basic information (address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail and Web site addresses, CEO, etc.) and as much additional information as could be found regarding history, purpose, priorities, budget, funding source, publications, staff, organizational structure, and governing body.
A one-page selected bibliography of publications from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s directs the user to sources that will help explain the evolution and significance of think tanks in our society, and the geographical index facilitates identification of think tanks in each state and the District of Columbia. The alternative name index is an "alphabetical listing of initialisms, acronyms, and other names by which the think tank listed in this directory are known," and the subsidiary index lists centers and other subdivisions referred to in each parent think tank's entry but not listed separately.
The policy areas index, which should be the most useful, is the most frustrating. It consists of undifferentiated locators in which, for example, the user is directed to 250 or 300 pages (not specific entries) where there is information on think tanks that address very broad subjects, such as agriculture, civil rights, and science and technology. A library patron will find it time consuming to indentify relevant information.
Another concern for library purchasers is the binding. What the Board saw was suitable for a single user or office but probably would not endure normal use by multiple patrons and repeated shelving and photocopying. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
