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brary Association. The final decision of 
selection is left to the training college. 

The entire study communicates a general 
quality of conservatism and limitation of 
viewpoint that is surely not characteristic of 
British librarianship. It is certainly in con-
trast with the contemporary library philos-
ophy explicit in R. L. Collison's Progress in 
Library Science, 1965 (Washington, D.C.: 
Butterworth Inc., 1965). The only equiva-
lent to the Furlong work on this side of the 
ocean is G. R. Lyle's The Administration of 
The College Library (3d ed., New York: 
The H. W. Wilson Company, 1961). The 
training college staff will find much that is 
useful in Lyle, particularly his chapter on 
the "Interpretation of College Library Ser-
vice," and in his references to paperback 
books. Serious students of the college li-
brary should add Library Practice for Col-
leges of Education to their personal reading 
lists.-Sidney Forman, Teachers College, 
Columbia University. 
Bibliotheca Medica: Physician for Tomor-

row; Dedication of the Countway Li-
brary of Medicine, May 26 & 27, 1965. 
Ed. by David McCord. Boston: published 
for the Harvard Medical School, 1966. 
248 p. 
On the evidence of this book, the dedica-

tion of the Countway library of medicine 
in May 1965 was an enormously happy, 
wonderful, and rewarding occasion. Here 
we have the addresses on medical history 
and library technology, along with the dedi-
catory incantations, which graced the exer-
cises inaugurating the fine new library struc-
ture housing the combined collections of 
the Harvard medical library and the Boston 
medical library. 

This is, almost inevitably, a miscellany. 
What holds the whole thing together, beau-
tifully, is the underlying humane wisdom of 
all the participants, their wit, their urbanity, 
their learning worn so lightly. This is fur-
ther cemented, in the book, by the exem-
plary editorial efforts of David McCord, 
who furnishes continuity and gives the read-
er the sense of having heard the words 
spoken. Finally, the physical book here for 
once matches the feeling of its contents; 
the Anthoensen press has given us a fine 
piece of craftsmanship. 

Oswei Temkin, Dickinson W. Richards, 
George Corner, and Lloyd Stevenson discuss 
aspects of medical history; Herbert Menzell, 
Ralph Esterquest, Martin Cummings, Morti-
mer Taube, and Raynard Swank discuss as- 4 
pects of library technology. Menzel sets 
forth some tentative conclusions and some 
speculations which may be drawn from the 
user studies he has long been engaged in. 
Esterquest describes straightforwardly and 
honestly some of the hopes and beliefs and 
fears that were particularly his on this 
proud occasion. Cummings speaks of inter-
library cooperation, of the old days and of 
the present day, and gives some fascinating 
statistics on NLM services. The essay by 
Taube, of a somewhat metaphysical kind, 
is brilliant; it demonstrates again his powers 
of insight, and his capacity for clarity in 
description; there is a terrible poignancy 
in realizing that this was to be his last 
major public contribution prior to his un-
timely death a few months later. The fol-
lowing essay by Swank (with Robert M. 
Hayes) is excellent; in major part a re-
sponse to Taube's remarks, it proves that 
a constructive critique can be as interesting, 
and far more useful, than the intemperate 
arguments which unfortunately are more 
familiar to us. 

Archibald MacLeish sets the final runic 
stone in place, as he speaks of "man in 
his old condition as man, man with his 
wonder on him." These essays, and their 
embodiment in this book, fittingly exemplify 
the aspirations and auspicious rebirth of 
a great medical library.-Frank B. Rogers, 
M.D., University of Colorado. 

Conference on the Use of Printed and 
Audio-Visual Materials for Instruction-
al Purposes rFinal Report]. Prepared by 
Maurice F. Tauber and Irlene Roemer 
Stephens. New York: School of Library 
Service, Columbia University, 1966. xii, 
241 p. $3. 

On November 22 and 23, 1965, a con-
ference concerned with materials used for 
insb·uctional purposes, as indicated in the ' 
title above, was convened at the school of 
library service, Columbia University. Sup-
ported as Title VII project, B 546, through 
the Office of Education, U .S. Department of