College and Research Libraries ford, its university archivist, played a large role. The monograph in hand is a more syste- matic approach to the work of the univer- sity archivist, valuable in instructing the newcomer to the field, but with useful re- minders also for the experienced archivist. Although the specific emphasis of this man- ual is on scientific records, so much of the text has equal application to university ar- ohives generally, that to speak only of its use to the specialist would deny other col- lege archivists knowledge of a valuable tool. Sufficient mention is made of the broad principles which must be part of the ar- chivist's mental outlook, to provide a foun- dation for further study of the archival method. Standards for evaluation and reten- tion of records, the real test of any archiv- ist, are clearly and concisely phrased for comprehension by the novice. Brichford has done a rather remarkable job in compressing detailed procedures into an abbreviated step-by-step summary of the methods used in a well-organized deposi- tory, with practical hints on processing drawn from his own experience. To this he adds the special approaches needed for the pa1ticular forms in which historical records may appear----,Qfficial files, personal papers, and the nontextual records for which the archivist must be prepared. The historian or archivist particularly in- terested in the records of science will un- doubtedly find special value in the descrip- tion of files accumulated in scientific re- search, and in the clues offered to the types of materials worth permanent preservation. Brichford will probably stimulate many of his colleagues to search for the raw ma- terials of scientific history not previously seen as valuable to the archives. A nine-page annotated bibliography guides the reader to other published sources of greatest value to the archivist. One need not point to the bargain price (one dollar) as a measure of the value of the pamphlet.-Miriam Crawford, T emple University. Cooperation Between Types of Libraries, 1940-1968: An Annotated Bibliography. Ralph H. Stenstrom. Chicago: American Library Association, 1970. 159p. Those who think that cooperation among Recent Publications I 485 types of libraries is like the weather will discover, through Ralph Stenstrom's bibli- ography, that many libraries have passed the "talking" stage and are actually "doing" constructive, interlibrary-type projects. The 383 references to the literature provide a convincing argument that cooperation is very much alive and well in the library world. The bibliography was compiled for the Illinois State Library by Stenstrom and Ga- len E. Rike with the assistance of other members of the Library Research Center staff at the University of Illinois. The in- cluded citations were identified through a literature search of Library Literature, 1955-1968, several existing bibliographies on library cooperation covering the period 1940-1954, and an announcement which appeared in the major library journals re- questing descriptions of cooperative inter- library projects. Stenstrom might have un- dertaken a more exhaustive search and could have examined the references in all pertinent articles and reports. Even with these limitations (cited in the introduction to the bibliography), the majority of ref- erences and the substantive projects were no doubt identified through the search strategy used. Coverage was limited to projects de- scribed in publications during the period 1940- 1968, and to unpublished reports on projects identified through responses to the request appearing in library journals. The included references "deal with cooperation involving more than one type of library," and describe programs in actual operation or, in some instances, in the proposal stage. Appropriate foreign projects are included when published in English. The traditional library classification of public, school, aca- demic-research, and special libraries is used in discussion of types of cooperation throughout the bibliography. The annotated entries are arranged chronologically by year and month of pub- lication. Chronological arrangement is an effective grouping device, particularly in an area which has experienced increased activity since the addition in 1966 of Title III to the Library Services and Construc- tion Act. The indexes provide good multiple-access to the included references. The reader can 486 I College & Research Libraries • November 1971 approach the references by author name, organization or cooperative project name, type of cooperative activity, or by group- ings of types of libraries involved in coop- erative projects. The annotations are well written, in the 100-150-word range, and are indicative to informative in style. They give the reader enough information to determine if he needs to examine any given publication. A review of the literature prefaces the bibliography. Discussion of the content of the referenced articles is arranged by groupings of types of libraries involved in cooperative projects (e.g., academic-school- public; academic-public; school-public). Interlibrary cooperative projects are wide- ranging in scope and include such activi- ties as bibliographical centers, catalog card exchanges, cooperative and centralized ac- quisitions, cataloging and processing, coop- erative and coordinated selection, duplicate exchanges, facsimile transmission, interli- brary delivery service, last copy retention, library development plans, photoreproduc- tion of library materials, statewide net- works, storage libraries, teletype networks, union catalogs and lists, and wide area tele- phone service. The bibliography should be in the per- sonal library of any librarian interested in cooperation among types of libraries. It is a well-planned, well-done compilation which will prove very useful in sorting out the interlibrary cooperative projects from those which profess to include different types of libraries but all too often don't- Lawrence E. Leonard, University of Illi- nois, Urbana. For the Government and People of This State: A Histor·y of the New York State Library. Cecil R. Roseberry. Albany, N.Y.: The State Education Department, 1970. 126p. Cecil Roseberry's brief volume is an "of- ficial" history, published by the State Edu- cation Department and written to commem- orate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the New York State Library in 1818. It may be true that the genre is often eulogis- tic and dull, but this one is a bright, spar- kling exception. It is a delightfully bal- anced combination of scholarly care and popularization. Few librarians will be able to put it down, in any sense of the term, and it is certain to become a best seller among state publications. The State Library at Albany was bmn in the same session of the legislature as the Erie Canal, and its nineteenth-century his- tory seems to have been almost as turbulent as the canal's. Roseberry recounts the de- velopment, from unpromising beginnings, of what was to become the most distin- guished of the American state libraries in vignettes of the people who directed and influenced it, of the constantly changing po- litical and social climate of the state, of the pervasive problems of proper quarters, and of the growth of the library's collections. Five absorbing chapters are devoted to the accomplishments of the most famous of the state librarians, Melvil Dewey, and his often zany career. The cast of charac- ters, particularly in the early days of the li- brary's existence when the part-time job of state librarian was part of a rampant spoils system, includes a brace of strange but en- gaging upstate political types. Notable was James Maher, Irish immigrant, war hero, wholesale grocer, and boss of Albany's Fourth Ward, who, when he was appointed state librarian by Van Buren, could at least claim some prior subprofessional experience since he had had a hand in the pillaging of the town library in York, Ontario, during the War of 1812. Another early appointee as state librarian was referred to by an Al- bany newspaper as "one of the greatest pot house brawlers and political blackguards in the federal ranks." The appointment of the nonpolitical Board of Regents as the trustees of the State Library in the 1840s, and their in- sistence upon a full-time state librarian marked the beginning of a serious effort to develop the library. During the remainder of the nineteenth century, and especially during Dewey's tenure from 1888 to 1905, it became a model of efficient management for its day, even while the problem of suit- able quarters was a persistent one. A suspenseful chapter describes the dis- astrous fire of 1911 which destroyed large portions of the library's collection on the eve of a move into a new and safer build- ing. Ironically, the near destruction of the collection brought attention and funds that, despite tragic losses of irreplaceable materi-