ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Publications
RECEIVED

(Selected item s will be review ed in fu tu re is­
sues of College a nd Research Libraries.)

•  G r a d u a te  E d u c a tio n  in  th e  A r ts  a n d  S c i­
ences: Prospects f o r  the Future: P rinceton Uni­
versity R ep ort o f  the P resident‚ 1981 has a tw o­
fold purpose: to give a b ro ad er audience knowl­
edge of graduate education at Princeton and to 
draw  in c re a se d  a tte n tio n  to critical issues co n ­
fronting g raduate education in th e arts and sci­
ences at all d o ctorate-granting universities in th e 
U n ited  States.

•  H an d b oo k f o r  A A C R  2: E xplaining a n d  Illu s­
tra tin g  A nglo-A m erican Cataloging R u les‚ Second 
E d itio n  (A m erican  L ib ra ry  A sso ciatio n , 1980, 
$20), by M argaret Maxwell, is d esig n ed  to assist 
library school stu d en ts and catalogers in th e  ap ­
plication of th e  m ost com m only-used rules for d e ­
sc rip tio n , choice of access p o in ts, a n d  form  of 
h e a d in g  as s e t f o r th  in t h e  A n g lo - A m e r ic a n  
Cataloging Rules, Second E dition.

•  C o m p u te r - O u tp u t M ic ro film : I ts  L ib r a r y  
A p p lica tio n s‚ by W illiam  Saffady (Am erican Li­
brary Association, 1978, $11), is d esig n ed  for li­
brary p e rso n n e l, including system s analysts, a d ­
m inistrators, and others who n e ed  an u n d e rsta n d ­
in g  o f th e  l a t e s t  d e v e lo p m e n ts  in c o m p u t e r ­
o u tp u t-m icro film  e q u ip m e n t, softw are, ap p lica­
tions, and system s design.

•  In  C anadian Libraries in 2010 (Parabola Sys­
te m s , V a n c o u v e r, C a n a d a , 1980), S .D . N e ill 
m akes a set of predictions on th e state of C ana­
dian libraries in th at year. Neill builds a view of 
th e  w o rld  an d  of th e  p ro fessio n  as a w ho le in 
2010 in o rd e r to m ake in tellig en t guesses at w hat 
C anadian libraries will b e like.

•  M icro fo rm s a n d  G o v e rn m e n t In fo r m a tio n , 
by P e te r H ern o n  (Microform Review, In c., 1981, 
$29.95), d eals w ith  m icro fo rm s in th e  g e n e ra l 
context of go v ern m en t publications and suggests 
th a t in m any cases a dichotom y b e tw e e n  p a p e r 
and m icroform  publications is not m eaningful.

•  In Stack M anagem ent: A  Practical G uide to 
Shelving a n d  M aintaining Collections (American 
L ibrary Association, 1981, $7) au th o r W illiam J. 
H u b b a rd  states th a t th e  m ajor goal of th e collec­
tion m anager or sh elv er is to make th e  collection 
a c c e s s ib le  th r o u g h  a r r a n g e m e n t a n d  p h y s ic a l 
m ain te n a n c e . H e dev o tes sev eral c h a p te rs to a 
discussion o f practical p ro ce d u res for accom plish­
ing this end. This guide is an u p d a te  of W illiam 
Jesse’s 1952 publication, S h e lf W o rk in Libraries.

•  Video In vo lvem en t f o r  Libraries: A  C u rre n t 
Aw areness Package f o r  Professionals, e d ite d  by 
Susan Spaeth C h erry  (Am erican L ibraiy  Associa­
tion, 1981, $6), com piles and u pd ates articles th at 
a p p e a re d  in A m erica n  L ib ra ries b e tw e e n  A pril

1979 an d  O c to b e r 1980. Som e artic les discuss 
basic topics in video such as hardw are, software 
and term inology; o th ers p re s e n t inform ation on 
video uses in schools, public libraries, u n iv ersi­
ties, and p riv ate organizations.

•  A N ational B iblio g ra p h ic/R esource Sharing 
etw o rk f o r  C anadian Academ ic L ibraries, p u b ­

lish ed  in 1981 by th e  C an ad ian  A ssociation for 
Research L ibraries, contains th e texts of th e p a ­
p ers p re s e n te d  at th e CARL C onference on this 
topic h e ld  on O cto b er 24 and 25, 1979, at th e  
C hateau Bonne E n te n te  in Ste-Foy, Q uebec.

•  In M ainstream ing Outsiders: T he P roduction 
o f  B la c k  P r o fe s s io n a ls  ( G e n e r a l H a ll, 1981, 
$30.95), Jam es E. Blackwell docum ents th e  suc­
cesses an d  failures of th e  collective efforts e m ­
ployed in b o th  th e  public and private sectors to 
assist blacks a n d  o th e r  m in o ritie s  in e n te r in g  
m ainstream  A m erican society. His prim ary focus 
is a system atic analysis o f black A m ericans’ access 
to and graduation from graduate and professional 
schools.

•  U ser F ees: A  P r a c tic a l P e r s p e c tiv e , by 
M iriam  A. D ra k e  (L ib ra rie s U n lim ite d , 1981, 
$17.50 U .S ., $21 elsew here), contains 11 p apers 
dealing w ith th e issue of u se r fees as a m eth o d  of 
financing library and inform ation services.

•  Victor Gondos, J r., traces th e  long efforts of 
J. F ra n k lin  Jam eso n  to o b tain  h o u sin g  for th e  
records of th e  U n ited  States G o v e rn m e n t in J. 
Franklin Jam eson a n d  the B irth  o f  the N ational 
A rchives, 1906-1929 (U niversity of Pennsylvania 
Press, 1981, $20).

•  R a tio s o f  S t a f f  to Users: Im p lic a tio n s  f o r  
L ib ra ry-In fo rm a tio n  W o rk  a n d  th e Potential f o r  
A utom ation  (Aslib Occasional Publication No. 24, 
UK £17, £14 Aslib m em bers, US $21.25, $17.50 
Aslib m em b ers) is d e sig n e d  to p ro v id e staff to 
u se r ratios for special lib raries an d  inform ation 
services. N orm ative and extrapolative “ideal’ data 
included.

•  Is s u e s  in  P e r s o n n e l M a n a g e m e n t in  
Academ ic Libraries (Foundations in L ibrary and 
Inform ation Science, Vol. 14), by M urray S. M ar­
tin , b rin g s to g e th e r  id eas from  se v e ra l a p p ro ­
p r ia te  d is c ip lin e s  a n d  show s h o w  r e s e a rc h  in 
sociology, operations, m anagem ent, and organiza­
tion can be used to im prove p erso n n el m anage­
m e n t in lib ra rie s . T h e  bo o k  (Jai P re ss , 1981, 
$32.50) is organized as a series of essays around 
individual topics.

•  C ollege L ib r a r ia n s h ip , e d ite d  by W illiam  
M iller and C. S tep h en  Rockwood (The Scarecrow 
P ress, 1981, $15) is a co llectio n  o f 18 a rticles 
w hich a tte m p ts  to p ro v id e  a p ic tu re  of to d ay ’s 
A m erican college lib ra ry  an d  o f c u r r e n t m e th ­
odologies used to study th ese institutions.

•  Telecom m unications a nd Libraries: A  P rim er

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f o r  L ib ra ria n s a n d  In fo r m a tio n  M a n a g ers, by 
D o n ald  W. King et. al. (K n ow led g e I n d u s try  
P ublications, 1981, $32.50, $24.50 paper), p ro ­
vides an overview  of th e  m any d iffere n t com ­
m unications technologies available to librarians, 
inclu d in g  cable telev isio n , sa te llite s, view data/ 
videotext, facsimile, th e video disc, and th e on­
line com puter system.

•  Book Publishing: W h a t I t Is, W h a t I t Does, 
S eco n d  E d itio n , by J o h n  P. D e s s a u e r  (R .R . 
Bowker, Co., 1981) reviews the history of book 
publishing, examines the environm ent in which it 
functions, th e qualifications of its p ractitio n ers, 
the product it creates, th e processes em ployed in 
book m anufacture, publishing m arkets and how 
they are reached, and th e economics and finance 
of th e field.

•  The House o f  A ppleton, by G erard R. Wolfe 
(The Scarecrow Press, 1981, $17.50), recounts the 
history of th e Appleton publishing house and its 
im pact on the cultural, social and political events 
that help ed  shape New York City.

•  M arketing the Library: Techniques f o r  M an­
aging the Library in H ard Times (Association of 
Assistant Librarians, N orthern Division, England, 
1981) presents papers given at th e Association of 
A ssistant L ib rarian s N o rth e rn  D iv ision /L ibrary  
A sso c ia tio n  N o r th e r n  B ra n c h  J o in t A n n u a l 
W eekend School at O tterb u rn  Hall in O ctober of 
1980.

•  H ierarchical Relationships in Bibliographic 
D escriptions, by A hm ed H. Helal and Joachim 
W. Weiss (Essen U niversity Library, 1981), is a 
r e p o r t  on th e  p r o c e e d in g s  o f I n te r m a r c  
Software-Subgroup Sem inar 4, at Essen, March 
25-27, 1981. The study is done in th e  general 
framework of the linking problem s of data in on­
line bibliographic databases. The analysis is lim ­
ited to off- and on-line cataloging, b u t all the re ­
q u irem en ts for netw orking, acquisition, circula­
tion, etc ., w ere k ep t in mind.

•  Libraries and Accreditation in Institutions o f  
H igher Education records th e proceedings of th e 
A ssociation o f C ollege and R esearch  L ib ra rie s 
C o n feren ce in N ew  York C ity on Ju n e  2 6 -2 7 , 
1980. T h e  p u b lic a tio n  (A CRL, 1981, $18.95, 
$14.95 for m e m b e rs), e d ite d  by Ju lie  C a rro ll 
Virgo and David Alan Yuro, includes the formal 
presentations, sum m aries of the small group dis­
cussions, and conclusions as view ed by one of th e 
participants.

•  Practical plans for m eetin g  fu tu re inform a­
tion needs, with em phasis on u ser needs, eco­
n om ics, tech n o lo g y , a n d  legal issu e s, a re  th e  
focus of M artha Boaz’s Strategies f o r  M eeting the 
Inform ation Needs o f  Society in the Year 2000, a 
c o lle c tio n  of 15 essays b y  sp e c ia lists a n d  a u ­
thorities in th eir respective fields (Libraries U n­
lim ited, 1981).

•  T he te c h n iq u e s d e sc rib e d  in B o o kb in d in g  
and Conservation by Hand: A W orking G uide, by 
Laura S. Young (R.R. Bowker & Co., 1981, $35), 
follow in p rin cip le th e  G erm an school of h an d

bookbinding. The illustrated guide covers types 
o f h a n d  b in d in g s , t h e  m a k e u p  o f th e  b o o k , 
eq u ip p in g  a shop, and th e  use of th e  p rin tin g  
press.

•  C om puter Basics f o r  Librarians and In fo r ­
m ation Scientists, by H ow ard Fosdick (Inform a­
tion Resources Press, 1981, $17.50), is dedicated 
to bridging the gap b etw een  two bodies of litera­
tu re : th a t w hich deals w ith  lib rary  au to m atio n  
and is addressed to library professionals, and that 
w h ic h  is c la s s ifie d  as c o m p u te r  s c ie n c e  a n d  
mainly u n d erstandable by those conversant with 
d e tailed  aspects of c o m p u te r system s and p ro ­
gramming.

•  G uide to Academ ic Libraries in the United 
States f o r  Students o f  English as a Second L a n ­
guage, by Patricia Byrd, Carol A. D rum  and Bar­
bara Jean W ittkopf (Prentice-H all, 1981, $7.95), 
has b een  p rep a red  to help stu d en ts with native 
language o th er than English make thorough in ­
form ation searches in academ ic libraries in th e 
U n ited  States. The book has b e e n  p lan n e d  for 
use in in te rm e d ia te  and advanced ESL  classes, 
b u t it may be used as a self-teaching tool by stu ­
dents with advanced proficiency in English.

•  Closing the Catalog: Proceedings o f  the 1978 
a n d  1979 L ib ra ry  a n d  In fo rm a tio n  Technology 
A sso c ia tio n  I n s titu te s  (The O ryx P re ss, 1981, 
$18.50) covers th e LITA -sponsored Closing th e 
Catalog In stitu tes, the first on N ovem ber 28-30, 
1978, in New Orleans and a follow-up on F e b ru ­
ary 14-16, 1979, in San Francisco. The purpose of 
the In stitu tes was to examine th e nature of the 
influences causing libraries to consider the closing 
of th eir catalogs and th e desirability of the a lte r­
natives at hand. The presentations of the various 
speakers are included in this publication.

•  University Librarianship (Handbooks on Li­
brary Practice, The Library Association, London, 
1981) ed ited  by John F. Stirling, is a symposium 
w ith co n trib u tio n s from te n  librarians, each of 
w hom  sp eak  from  p ra c tic a l e x p e rie n c e . C o n ­
tributors cover many aspects of academ ic lib rar­
ianship and d escrib e tec h n iq u es c u rre n tly  e m ­
ployed in British university libraries. D istrib u ted  
in th e  U n ite d  S ta te s  by T h e  O ry x  P re s s  at 
$32.50.

•  A u th o r J o h n  B la g d e n ’s v iew  in D o W e 
R e a lly  N e e d  L ib ra ries: A n  A sse ssm e n t o f  A p ­
proaches to the Evaluation o f  the Perform ance o f  
Libraries is that the library profession has failed 
to “vigorously dem onstrate th e p art that libraries 
and librarians play in enriching th e m inds of m en 
and w o m e n .’’ T he book is a rev ie w  of th e  a t­
tem pts th at have b een  m ade to develop a m e th ­
odology by which a lib raiy ’s contribution to the 
goals laid down by the funding body can be easily 
assessed. P ublished by Clive Bingley, L td ., 1980, 
d istrib u ted  at $18.50 by The Shoe String Press.

•  P u b lic  L e n d in g  R i g h t, th e  to p ic  o f th e  
Spring 1981 issue of L ibrary Trends (Vol. 29, No. 
4), by P erry D. M orrison and D ennis H yatt, dis­
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are com pensated by v irtu e of th e fact that th eir 
works are used by library patrons. “W h eth er or 
not public lending rig h t is actually in h e re n t in 
copyright law, or m erely a means of subsidizing 
authors em p lo yin g lib rary  use as a c o n v en ien t 
rationale,” is d e b ated  in the pages of this sym­
posium. (University of Illinois G raduate School of 
Library Science, 1981).

•  A A C R 2  a n d  th e  C a talo g : T h e o r y -  
S tr u c tu r e -C h a n g e s , by W esley  S im on to n  and 
M arilyn Jones McClaskey (Libraries U nlim ited, 
1981, $8.50 US, $10 e lse w h e re ), a tte m p ts  to 
identify the major problem s involved in th e p re p ­
aration of a bibliographic record and delineate the 
possible solutions to th ese  pro b lem s, including 
reference to both AACR 2 and earlier practice.

•  Teaching L ibrary Use: A  Guide f o r  L ibrary 
Instruction, by James Rice, Jr. (Contributions in 
Librarianship and Inform ation Service, No. 37), is 
in te n d e d  to help librarians, m edia specialists, and 
teachers design library instruction program s at all 
educational levels. Available through G reenw ood 
Press at $25 (1981).

•  A t th e In sta n c e  o f  B e n ja m in  F ra n klin : A 
B r i e f  H is to r y  o f  T h e  L i b r a r y  C o m p a n y  o f  
P h ila d e lp h ia , 1 7 3 1 -1 9 7 6 , by E d w in  W olf, II, 
(The Library Company, 1976), is a b rief history of

The Libraiy Com pany of Philadelphia based on 
an article which appeared in Volume XV of the 
E nclyclopedia o f  L ib ra ry a n d  In fo rm a tio n  Sci­
ence, 1975. The history appears h e re  in an ex­
panded and illustrated version.

•  The object of M icrocom puters and Libraries: 
A  G uide to Technology, Products and A pplica­
tions, by M ark E. Rovig, (Knowledge In d u stry  
Publications, 1981), is to equip librarians with the 
conceptual tools and general information req u ired  
to plan m icro com p u ter applications, select and 
evaluate commercially available m icrocom puters, 
and m ake an effective im p le m e n ta tio n  of th is 
technology. ■ ■

Calendar
March
2-3— Information Science: th e 24th Annual C on­

ference of the National F ederation of A bstract­
ing and In d ex in g  Services (N FA IS), C ry stal 
C ity  M a rrio tt, A rlin g to n , V irg in ia, has th e  
th em e  “Conflict in th e Inform ation E n v iro n ­
m ent: Risks and O p p o rtu n ities.” Fee: $155, for 
n o n -m e m b e rs, in c lu d in g  lu n ch e o n ; $115 for 
March 2 only; $130 for March 3 only (includes 
lu n c h e o n ). F o r m o re  in fo rm a tio n  c o n ta c t: 
L ynne N eufeld, E xecutive D irecto r, N FAIS, 
112 South 16th S treet, Philadelphia, PA 19102; 
(215) 563-2406.

8-9— N ew  Technology: an n u al con feren ce, L i­
brarians’ Association of the University of N orth 
C arolina, “T he N ew  Technology: Issues and 
Im plications.” Fee: $14 for m em bers; $20 for 
n o n - m e m b e r s . C o n ta c t: B e rn ic e  B e rg u p , 
H u m a n itie s  D e p a r t m e n t , W ilso n  L ib ra ry  
024-A, U niversity o f N orth Carolina, C hapel 
Hill, NC 27514; (919) 962-1356.

18-19— Online Catalogs: “A ccessibility for th e 
Library User: O nline C atalogs,” a conference 
sponsored by the ACRL New England C hapter 
and the New England College Librarians, to be 
held at Babson College, W ellesley, M assachu­
s e tts . F o r f u r th e r  in fo rm a tio n  c o n ta c t Joan 
Stockard, Chair of the Program Com m ittee, at 
W ellesley College Library, (617) 235-0320, Ext. 
283.

26— Historical Writing: a conference on writing 
lo cal c h u r c h  h is to r ie s  w ill b e  h e ld  at