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the action sought is the practice of the best 
present library methods which are applicable 
to a small collection and a small staff. The 
book is slanted toward that neglected area of 
our profession which involves 'one-man' li-
braries, of which there are many, and to col-
lege libraries with a staff of as many as three, 
of which there are many more. The author 
even assumes, and rightly, that many of these 
librarians may be without benefit of profes-
sional training. 

The text is clear, thorough in treatment 
of the areas chosen, but concise in statement 
and precise in reference not only to accepted 
library practices but also to the most essen-
tial tools and professional literature and 
organizations. The latter is an indication of 
the author's very gentle but firm persuasion 
of those library staffs which are least likely 
to do so to participate in and benefit from 

such organizations, notably the ALA. 
The value of this book lies in its orienta-

tion and emphases. Nothing really new in 
library method or administration has been 
said. What has been said has been said well, 
and with the exception of some slight con-
fusion arising from a lack of sufficient sub-
heads, the book is very readable. Strong 
points include its emphasis on budget mat-
ters, an avowedly knotty problem for any 
library administrator; its numerous but per-
tinent appendices; and an adequate index. 

This volume is deceptive in its simplicity. 
It is a mine whose wealth may be acquired 
easily by both professional and nonprofes-
sionat staff members of the small college 
library, and it should soon find its way as 
well to the reading lists of library science 
courses in college library administration.-
John David Batsel, Lambuth College. • • 

Books Briefly Noted 

Annotated Guide to Reference Materials in 
the Human Sciences. By A. K. Mukherjee. 
New York: Asia Publishing House, 1962. 
267p. $8.50. 

Bibliographica Neerlandica. Compiled by 
A. M. P. Mollema and P. M. Morel. The 
Hague: Nijhoff, 1962. 598p. f 48.-

Biblioteka; Wprowadzenie do zagadnien 
budowy. (An Introduction to Library 
Building Problems.) By Wladyslaw Piasec-
ki. Warsaw: Stowarzyszenie Bibliotekarzy 
Polskich, 1962. 120p. 

Copyright Law Revision, Part 2; Discussion 
and Comments on Report of the Register 
of Copyrights on the General Revision of 
the United States Copyright Law. House 
Committee on the Judiciary. Washington, 
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1963. 
419p. $1.25. · 

Directory of Business and Financial Services; 
a Project of the Business and Financial 
Division. Edited by Mary A. McNierney. 
New York: Special Libraries Association, 
1963. 6th ed. 187p. $6.50. 

Foreign Newspapers in Southeastern Librar-
ies; Sponsored by the Association of South-
eastern Research Libraries. Edited by Wil-
liam Stanley Hoole. University, Ala.: Uni-
versity of Alabama Press, 1963. 64p. 

JULY 1963 

German-English Chemical Terminology; an 
Introduction to Chemistry in English and 
German. By Alexander King and Hans 

. Fromherz. Weinheim: Verlag Chemie, 
1963. 4th ed. revised and enlarged. 588p. 

Guide to Russian Reference Books. By Karol 
Maichel. (Hoover Institution Bibliograph-
ical Series, no. 10). Stanford University, 
Calif.: The Hoover Institution on War, 
Revolution, and Peace, 1962. 92p. $5.00. 

History of Early Ukranian Printing, 1491-
1600. By Lubomyr R. Wynar. (Studies in 
Librarianship, v.1, no. 2). Denver: Uni-
versity of Denver Graduate School of Li-
brarianship, 1962. 96p. $2.50. 

Informe; Reunion Tecnica de Bibliotecas 
Agricolas de Colombia, )0 de ]ulio-17 de 
Agosto de 1962. Auspiciada por la Escuela 
Interamericana de Bibliotecologia con la 
colaboracion de la Facultad de Agronom-
ica e Instituto Forestal Universidad Na-
cional de Columbia. Medellin, Colombia: 
Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecologia, 
1962. 229p. 

The Library of Tomorrow-Today; an In-
formation Service of Educational Research 
Materials. Edited by Pamela W. Reeves~ 
et al. Cleveland: Center for Documenta-
tion and Communication Research, 1962. 
326p. 

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Library Statistics of Colleges and Universi-
ties~ 1961-62; Institutional Data. By Theo-
dore Samore and Doris C. Holladay. Wash-
ington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 
1963. 172p. $1.00. 

Maps of the 16th to 19th Centuries in the 
University of Kansas Libraries; an Ana-
lytical Carlo-bibliography. By Thomas R. 
Smith and Bradford L. Thomas. Lawrence, 
Kans.: University of Kansas Libraries, 
1963. 137p. 

Newspapers on Microfilm. (University of 
Oregon Library Occasional Paper no. 2) 
Eugene, Ore.: University of Oregon Li-
brary, 1963. 17p. 

Periodical Holdings in the Library of the 
School of Medicine. (Library Publications, 
I) Saint Louis: Washington University 
School of MediCine Library, 1963. 179p. 
$1.50. 

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rina. By N. lA. Morachevskii. Leningrad: 
1962. 2d· ed. revised and enlarged. 107p. 

Spoken Records. By Helen Roach. New 
York: Scarecrow Press, 1963. 213p. $4.75 . 

Supplement to the Census of Medieval and 
Renaissance Manuscripts in the United 
States and Canada. By C. U. Faye and 
W. H. Bond. New York: Bibliographical 
Society of America, 1962. 626p. $28 .20. 

Survey of Libraries~ Part II: Academic Li-
braries. Ottawa: Dominion Bureau of Sta-
tistics, Education Division, 1963. 45p. $.75. 

Technical Translating Dictionaries. Man-
chester, England: Manchester Public Li-
braries, 1962. 33p. • • 

Microcard Series ... 
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A scale of the graphic type was decided on 
as the vehicle for making the rating. Definitions 
of the traits and of the cues were culled from 
rating scales in use by libraries, and from sug-
gestions of the faculty of the division of librar-
ianship at Emory University. 

The completed scale, together with instruc-
tions to raters, appears in the appendix of this 
paper. 

STONE, ELIZABETH W., An analysis No. 138 
of the core administration course of the li-
brary schools accredited by the American Li-
brary Association. (Thesis: M.S. in L.S., Cath-
olic University of America, 1961.) x, 166 1. 
$1.50. 

Purpose of the study was to inventory the 
topical content of the core administration cours-
es offered in the thirty-two accredited library 
schools and to determine the amount of agree-
ment on: (I) major topics of instruction in basic 
administration required of all students in the 
Masters' program; (2) the relative importance 
of the various topics as indicated by the fre-
quency of inclusion; (3) and the methods of 
instruction. 

It was found that the core concept of a body 
of knowledge that must be mastered by every-
one has been accepted by 66 per cent of the 
library schools as applicable in the field of 
administration. Twenty-one of the thirty-two 
schools offer a core course in administration. Of 
the material being offered in these core courses 
there is 77 per cent agreement among the 
schools on topics covered. The study also in-
cludes a survey of the literature on the teaching 
of library administration. • • 

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