College and Research Libraries rare combination of Helen Haines and R . R . Hawkins, with some traces of Besterman. All frivolity aside, these papers provide sub- stance for future planning. T h e remaining papers touch on special- ized types of public and peripheral types of material. In W i l l i a m S. Budington's "Prob- lems of Selection in S c i e n c e " one can read- ily sense the particular public of a J o h n Crerar type of library. " T h e Components of the Science C o l l e c t i o n " reflects accurately in its enumeration of types of materials the long experience of Irene Strieby in special libraries and their needs. T h e brief sketch of "Science Fiction as L i t e r a t u r e " is lesser fillip, the frosting on the cake, bringing this collection to its conclusion, succinctly out- lined by Harold L a n c o u r with his customary Gallic humor. T h e conclusion, that "Science belongs in every library", and " L i b r a r i a n s will need, in the immediate years ahead, to inform themselves as never before about the world of science," is not itself news or a great contribution. A considerable contri- bution has been made, however, in adding to library literature an up-to-date, authori- tive handbook to enable those less knowl- edgeable in the sciences to cope with the needs of our changing p u b l i c . — J e r r o l d Orne, University of North Carolina. Circulation Systems Study of Circulation Control Systems. George Fry 8c Associates, Inc. (Library T e c h n o l o g y Project Publications, n u m b e r 1) Chicago: Library T e c h n o l o g y P r o j e c t of the Ameri- can Library Association, 1961. 138p. $2.50. T h i s attractively designed workbook is the end result of a long-awaited and com- prehensively carried out study of circulation systems by a private management group in cooperation with an advisory committee of librarians. I t is also the first publication to appear under the aegis of the Library T e c h - nology Project. T h e final product contains three manuals with tear-away worksheets for comparing systems in use, plus a truly im- pressive amount of statistical data. George Fry & Associates, management con- sultants, were commissioned for this detailed analysis of circulation in the field by the Council on Library Resources in coopera- tion with the Library T e c h n o l o g y P r o j e c t of the American Library Association and the Special Libraries Association. Limited in scope to only the operations of borrower registration, charging and discharging of books, handling overdues and reserves, and circulation statistics, the study also involved sending some 4,585 questionnaires to varied libraries. T h r e e hundred and thirty-one of these went to college and university librar- ies. T h e s e questionnaire results are tabu- lated in the study. During the actual study, seventy-three public libraries were visited, along with nineteen college and university libraries and twelve special libraries. Actually, the report, conceived as a "guide in h a n d " for administrators instituting or revising present circulation systems, is di- vided roughly into two halves. T h e first covers the procedures under which the study was conducted, together with a review of current circulation control practices and recommendations as to modifications and improvement. T h e second (and larger half) consists of the three manuals, complete with indented, numbered tabs, provided proce- dural and cost information on the leading circulation control systems and their varia- tions for public, college and university, and special libraries. T h e practical core of each manual is a number of blank work sheets, with accompanying explanatory samples, in- tended to be filled out when studying one's own needs with a view to estimating costs, modification, or consideration of a new sys- tem. T h e entire report is bound in plastic spiral so that these work sheets, one to be used for studying each charging point in the library, may be easily removed. B o t h the Council on Library Resources and L T P are to be commended for their foresight in initiating this project and in providing the wealth of comparative infor- mation brought forth. T h i s reviewer was in- trigued by probable uses of the work sheets, although broad use and reports of resulting savings and modifications will necessarily first have to be evaluated for full practical evidence. Nevertheless, it is reassuring to see the potentials of management analysis ap- 176 C O L L E G E A N D R E S E A R C H L I B R A R I E S plied to this traditional, and ofttimes neg- lected, problem area of libraries. Specifically, the statistical Exhibit 1V-B will be of immediate interest to circulation personnel with its provision of a percentile chart on "Elemental T i m e s for College and University Library Circulation Systems," as will be the other exhibits on equipment and material costs. Such gatherings of cost data have been needed for years. Also, in Chap- ter 5 of the report, "Future Mechanization," the administrator can speculate on an " i d e a l " circulation system of the future. One disappointing note is found, how- ever. Despite the excellence of charts, graphs, and data, the findings reported in the nar- rative portion of the study will be found somewhat elementary by the experienced circulation librarian or administrator alert to public service functions. In fairness it must be said that the Fry organization had to begin this study as a complete stranger to the field. T h e i r representatives, to become familiar with nomenclature and work meth- ods, visited fifty libraries, interviewing, film- ing operations, and conducting preliminary time and motion studies. However, despite the desirability of a fresh viewpoint, there is room here to wonder whether such a study done by experienced librarians, paid and on leave, might not have accomplished similar results without such time lost in preparation and familiarization. While this study should be of solid as- sistance in system revision and improve- ment, and while it reports concisely on twenty-eight charging systems now in use, it is regretted that one or two newer circula- tion modifications in the field were also not reported on. Reference is made to the Book- amatic modification now in operation at the Princeton University Library, which signifi- cantly reduces the high costs of Bookamatic reported in the Fry study, and in the earlier Diebolcl study. T h i s modification eliminates both the costly, little-used Bookamatic mul- tiple form and plastic book card, and by means of a plastic campus identification card and a redesigned imprinter, permits im- printing of any library's regular bookcards. —Warren B. Kuhn, Princeton University Library. 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