College and Research Libraries fact is that more and more colleges and uni- versities are identifying their library staffs with the academic group. It is Dr. Downs's firm conviction that over the years the full identification of librarians with the faculty, with all the rights and privileges which this status implies, will create the best kind of library service to students and faculty. And, of course, he is fundamentally right. In time the second class status and/or "separate but equal" status will eventually become anom- alous. This is not to suggest that every head librarian or professional library staff that has not yet reached faculty status should rush headlong into the battle, armed with copies of this report, to demand full fac- ulty privileges. Neither should the head librarian or library staff that has not yet achieved all that Dr. Downs and others have in terms of status for professional librarians feel miserable, downcast, and frustrated. T o o much preoccupation with staff status leads to fancied grievances, to dulling the imag- ination, and to the forming of a hard de- fensive crust on the mind which results in inflexibility. Dr. Downs and his contributors say clearly what must be done to achieve a satisfactory staff status. If conditions at Illinois and elsewhere seem somewhat re- mote from one's present situation, be of good cheer because if one has imagination, if he has a clear-cut conception of the li- brary's role in the college or university, if he takes every reasonable opportunity to make known the nature and importance of this role, and if in public performance and personal conviction he measures library suc- cess in terms of quality rather than quan- tity, then in good time all librarians—from the head librarian to the beginning profes- sional librarian—will be accepted fully as members of the instructional or academic staff of the college or university. As every good compiler should, Dr. Downs introduces the authors and pages contained in this monograph by precise reference to the source of the maiden publication, and also summarizes the major points or purpose of each contribution. Apparently all but two of the articles have been previously published. They include Paul H. Buck's "A New Personnel Program for Harvard Li- brarians," Patricia Knapp's " T h e College Librarian: Sociology of a Professional Spe- cialization," William H. Carlson's " T h e T r e n d Toward Academic Recognition of College Librarians," Robert H. Muller's "Faculty Rank for Library Staff Members in Medium-Sized Universities and Colleges," Felix Reichmann's "Hercules and Antaeus," Lawrence Thompson's "Preparation and Sta- tus of Personnel," Sidney H. Ditzion's "Col- lege Librarians and the Higher Learning," the Lundy and Gelfand studies previously mentioned in this review, and three contri- butions by the editor himself. Lewis C. Branscomb's " T h e Quest for Faculty R a n k " (that title gives me a haunting sense of ex- ile from a passionate paradise) and Rob- ert M. Pierson and Howard Rovelstadt's " T h e Case of Faculty Status for Librarians" appear here for the first time in public print. T h e whole book—though perhaps, it is less a book than a series of papers—makes an eloquent appeal on behalf of the impor- tance of librarianship and its being highly regarded and intelligently rewarded by the institutions whom the librarians serve. One might hope that such a book was quite un- necessary, but even in these days no one can say that it is not needed, in view of the amount of shallow depreciation that is cur- rent in some places by administrators and faculty members who ought to know better —and frequently do, because in public ad- dress they continue to refer to the library as "the heart of the institution." T h i s leads one to the optimistic conclusion that col- leges and universities may get along without full recognition for librarians as faculty members but they cannot get along without libraries.—Guy R. Lyle, Emory University Library. Industrial Information Information and Communication Practice in Industry. Edited by T . E. R . Singer. New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp., 304p., $8.75. Present practices and services in industrial libraries and information departments are discussed in this book. T h e distinction be- tween an industrial library and an informa- tion department is not a sharp one. T h e in- dustrial library which collects, abstracts, or- MARCH 1959 161 ganizes, and translates published literature is sometimes called an information depart- ment for reasons of prestige and/or to get the librarian into a higher pay classification. More often than not, however, the informa- tion department handles internal as well as external (published) literature and has tech- nical writing and editing functions. T h e broader definition of an information depart- ment is accepted in this book. T h e intro- ductory survey-type chapter lists and briefly describes operations in a special library and gives some budget data. T h e other chapters range from the "how-to-do" type (the four chapters on patent searching, technical writ- ing, illustrating, and editing) to theoretical discussions (the three chapters on linguistics, language and terminology, indexing and classification). There are also chapters on operations research as applied to informa- tion work, the organization of internal re- search records and classified patent collec- tions, mechanical aids for proper presenta- tion, punched card techniques, translating and abstracting, and the training of litera- ture scientists. Since the entire gamut of information ac- tivity is covered in a relatively thin though expensive book, it is not surprising that most of the subjects included are covered in greater detail someplace else. This is par- ticularly true with technical writing, tech- nical editing, and punched card techniques. T h e chapter on the organization of research records is a notable exception in that it is more extensive than anything which has been seen by this reviewer thus far. No cor- respondingly comprehensive articles on ab- stracting and translating are available. T h e two chapters in this book are a good start; it is hoped that a more definitive work will soon be forthcoming. After reading many books and articles in this field many of us are left with the im- pression that all this is very interesting but it does not really apply to our specific prob- lems. T h e reader of this book is likely to come to the same conclusion, but he will also be exposed to a number of stimulating ideas and will have excellent bibliographies available on most of the subjects covered. It is for these two reasons that the book is recommended to special librarians in indus- try as well as in public, university, and gov- ernment libraries.—Gerald Jahoda, Tech- nical Information Division, Esso Research and Engineering Co. Mass Communications Research Introduction to Mass Communications Re- search. Edited by Ralph O. Nafziger and David M. White. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1958. 244p. $5.00. Even after reading the book, the tempta- tion is great to quote extensively from the preface, in which the editors so well de- scribe their intent, for the reader's judg- ment of their success in fulfilling that intent will vary inversely with his own prior knowledge of and experience with scientific research methodology in the social sciences. Eschewing quotation, it is at least necessary to note that this volume is a lineal successor to the earlier (1949) An Introduction to Journalism Research, also sponsored by the Council on Communications Research of the Association for Education in Journalism. T h e title was broadened from "journalism" to "mass communications," even as the scope was narrowed from all of research method- ology to "concentrate on research methods in mass communication from a behavioral point of view." T h e intent is to acquaint new graduate students in the field of journalism with the research methodology now available for approaching the many and expanding prob- lems in the field; to an extent the book is also an outline of procedure from the in- ception of a problem, through its planning, to the statistical interpretation of the data. As such it will also be useful to students in librarianship bent on following and broad- ening the trail blazed by Waples and Berel- son. T h e volume contains seven essays by as many authors on such topics as planning; experimental, field, and statistical methods; and " T h e Challenge to Communication Re- search." Since all of the authors are work- ing over pretty much the same material from individual points of view, there is a goodly amount of repetition, which, for 162 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH L I B R A R I E S -