College and Research Libraries 418 I College & Research Libraries • November 1970 and their superiors. To be sure, these are key witnesses, but they are certainly "vest- ed interests." There should also have been queries made of other librarians in parallel but independent positions (e.g., central loan librarians) . An effort ought to have been made to fathom user response by way of independent surveys of student and fac- ulty opinion. How else can one adequately test standards and make evaluations? The 1970 imprint promises new material, but the text itself was written in 1966 and is based upon figures for 1965 and before. Neither her introduction, which appeared earlier in CRL (July 1968, p. 281-84), nor the text of her dissertation has been substantially changed. It is unfortunate that the work was not updated. Changes in the field in the last five years have been great. Impressive new undergraduate libraries- among them U.C.L.A., Stanford, North Carolina, and Illinois-have since opened and are already exercising great influence. Significant alterations are occurring in the basic concepts underlying the undergradu- ate library movement, particularly its meth- odology of collection development and ref- erence service. Recent survey articles by Warren B. Kuhn in Library Trends (Oct. 1969) and Robert H. Muller in Advances in Librarianship I ( 1970) are among the significant new literature documenting these fundamental changes. While a pioneer effort-and thus a com- mendable one-it must be concluded that this study by no means preempts or ex- hausts the subject. It is to be hoped that its existence will not deter future scholars from undertaking further investigations.-Marc Gittelsohn, University of California, Berke- ley. Southeastern Europe: A Guide to Basic Publications. Paul L. Horecky, ed. Chi- cago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. 755p. Professor Horecky has attempted a most difficult task of compressing into one vol- ume all pertinent bibliographical data con- cerning Southeastern Europe. A companion to the similar volume on Central Europe, this volume is the most exhaustive guide to basic publications on the subject. There are 3,018 entries, divided into two parts. In the first part, an overview of the Southeast Eu- ropean area is presented and books on vari- ous aspects of life, past and present, are listed in the following categories: general reference aids and bibliographies, general and descriptive works, land, people, his- tory, state, economy, society, and intellec- tual and cultural life. The five chapters of the second part are devoted to Southeast European countries, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Yugoslavia, follow- ing the same categories as in the introduc- tory chapter. These categories are further broken down into more specific subhead- ings. The volume opens with a useful list of participants and concludes with a thor- ough index of names of authors, compilers , editors, translators, and titles of publica- tions. References are consecutively numbered throughout the volume. They are in many languages, although the emphasis is on the language of the respective country and on English. Transliteration charts are provided and should prove indispensable to the gen- eral librarian. Most of the references are from the period since 1930, with those of the 1960's predominating. Thus the latest accomplishments in research are well repre- sented. The quality of the references them- selves varies from excellent to mediocre. Since it would be impossible to list all de- serving references in one volume, this guide had to be selective. The selection of items was entrusted to specialists in their fields and was done expertly in the main. One could, of course, argue for or against inclu- sion of certain entries or regret the lack of complete consistency in the arrangements, but omissions of this kind are inevitable in a guide of such large scope. The greatest merit of the references is contained in the annotations, most of which are concise yet quite informative. When these merits are coupled with the excellent technical make- up of the book, it becomes clear that this is by far the best bibliographical guide in its field, an indispensable tool for every li- brary and librarian dealing with Southeast- ein Europe. It is also an invaluable basic work to which future references can be added and improvements can be made.- Vasa D. Mihailovich, University of North Carolina. Reader in Research Methods for Librari- anship. Mary Lee Bundy and Paul Was- serman, eds. Reader Series in Library and Information Science. Washington, D.C.: NCR Microcard Editions, 1970. 363p. $10.95. This is a collection of eleven periodical articles and seventeen chapters of books from nine different subject fields on various aspects of research. Half were originally published in 1960 or later, and another 40 percent in the 1950's. There are several ap- pendices, including a long annotated "Bib- liography of Social Science Research Meth- odology," a short "Bibliography of Library Research" (including Price's Little Science, Big Science), and a sample interview schedule, attitude survey form, and mail questionnaire. In addition, the editors have written brief introductions to each . of six parts of the volume and to each of the twenty-eight selections. There is no subject index. "The fundamental purpose of this volume is to assist its readers to genuinely perceive the nature of scholarship and its relation- ship to the goals · of librarianship." (p.vii) The selections reprinted here succeed in general in fulfilling the first part of this goal, but not the second. Most of the selec- tions are by distinguished authors and so- cial scientists, e.g., Cohen and Nagle, Da- vid Riesman, Robert K. Merton, and Sam- uel A. Stouffer. Many of them are distinctly above the elementary level by deliberate intent of the editors (p. viii), and concern broad general developments (e.g. , the meaning of behavioralism) . Of the twenty- eight selections, 46 percent are from soci- ology, 18 percent from political science, 11 percent from library science, and the other 25 percent from six different fields ( includ- ing one each from history and communica- tions) . There are none from education, psy- chology, journalism, marketing, or econom- ics. It is clear that research methodology was meant to be de-emphasized, and only one Recent Publications I 419 of the six sections (with five articles) is de- voted to this topic. As a result, there is very little or nothing-anywhere in the book-on content analysis, preparation of questionnaires, interviewing (except for depth interviews in a disaster study proj- ect) , experimental design (other than three pages from a 1950 article), analysis of data, statistical methods (apart from one selec- tion on general principles), sampling, and other such topics. To judge from its title, this book was meant to do something spe· cifically for librarians. It would appear that the best parts of this volume would serve any of the social sciences; in this reviewer's experience, library school doctoral students, let alone library practitioners, need some- thing less advanced and more directly con- cerned with how to proceed. The most interesting section for this re- viewer was that on "Research in Action," consisting of personal reviews by social sci- entists of how they actually went about do- ing research they had completed earlier. The section which came off least well was that on "Conceptual Approaches." This was the single longest section of the text, about 20 percent, and presented attempts at the- ory construction. In their own comments, the editors repeatedly emphasize the desir- ability (indeed, the necessity) of theory to guide research in librarianship. But several of the articles they include make the point that both theory and data are needed, that neither is more important than the other, and that facts are the ultimate test of the- ory (pp. 26, 42, 43, 47, 65, 197). The content of these twenty-eight selec- tions has all been reset in two-column pages with unjustified right-hand margins and very few typographical errors. Not all the selections from books are identified by chapter number or paging. The names of the editors appear on the cover in reverse order from that on the title page.-H erbert Goldhor, University of Illinois. A History of Education for Librarianship in Colombia. By Richard Krzys and Gaston Litton. Metuchen, N.J.: Scare- crow, 1969. 203p. $5.00. This book is both more and less than its