College and Research Libraries 380 I College & Research Libraries • September 1974 The editors should have provided a dif- ferent direction for this book to face the fundamental questions librarians should or do have regarding the use of such reference tools. The obvious expertise of the authors could have been used to help other librari- ans learn about providing electronic data bases in reference service to a library's users.-]ohn Lubans, ]r., Assistant Director for Public Services, University of Colorado Libraries, Boulder, Colorado. Proceedings of the 1973 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing: Net- working and Other Forms of Co-opera- tion. Ed. by F. Wilfrid Lancaster. Ur- bana-Champaign, Ill.: University of Illi- nois Graduate School of Library Science, 1973. $6.00. This volume is a potpourri of materials on the application of computerized informa- tion handling techniques to one of the most complex and convoluted of today' s ''hot topics" in librarianship-networking. We have here a good mix of people, including library systems personnel, senior adminis- trators, and information specialists, chosen specifically for their professional experience with networking at one stage or another- designing, planning, developing, operating, and evaluating. Library school teachers are conspicuously absent, for the emphasis is squarely on the practical, not the academic. Most of the activities discussed are attempts at centralized technical processing, but in- formation retrieval services for users are covered in McCarn (MEDLINE) and in parts of the papers by Randall and by Evans, whose generalized schematic ap- proach is intriguing enough to steal the show from the particular project he is de- scribing. There are accounts of libraries "back- ing into network operations" (Brodman), where a system was designed for one li- brary and then adapted for many, and of formally organized and chartered affairs like OCLC (Long), which had its objec- tives well enough defined at the outset to let a contract for the simulation of comput- er performance characteristics in order to make the right choice of machine for its purpose. Jolliffe provides the only European contribution with a succinct account of Project LOC, a joint attempt to create a machine-readable union catalog of pre-1801 materials held at Oxford, Cambridge, and the British Museum. This is not a network, of course, but it could become the basis for one, and much more should be known about it in the U.S. Whether or not the clinic succeeded in imparting help at the nuts and bolts level I do not know, but in published form the more interesting contributions are those that go beyond technical description to give us the flavor of what it is really like to be involved in computerized cooperation. The oft-repeated platitude that runs "The major problems are not technological, but organi- zational and administrative" seems depress- ingly confirmed by recurring comments on the problems of properly financing coopera- tive activity; or persuading librarians to give up some control of their operations and services; of being dependent upon a computer center which has many other mis- sions and user groups; of increasing user ex- pectations which then are not fulfilled; of whether and how to charge for services, etc. Even taken singly, most libraries have found it difficult enough, organizationally, to understand and exploit the computer (as any Gentleman of Quality knows). The immediate chances of them multiplying their manifestly severe bureaucratic prob- lems by ten and then succeeding cannot be very high. Joseph Becker ends the volume with the hortatory comment that a national network of all types of libraries cooperating about everything is "just around the bend." Given the general tenor of the preceding papers, that seems a trifle optimistic.-Pe- ter G. Watson, University Library, Univer- sity of California, Los Angeles. OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST TO ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS Ash, Rene L. The Motion Picture Film Edi- t01'. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1974. 171p. $6.00. (74-4072). (ISBN 0-8108- 0718-1). Atkins, Thomas V., ed. Cross-Reference In- dex. A Subject Heading Guide. New York: Bowker, 1974. 255p. (73-23066). (ISBN 0-8352-0680-7). • Baer, Eleanora A. Titles in Series: A Hand- book for Librarians and Students. 3d supp. to 2d ed. Metuchen, N.J.: Scare- crow, 1974. 530p. $17.50. (64-11789). (ISBN 0-8108-0697-5). Breit, Marquita, comp. Thomas Merton: A Bibliography. (ATLA Bibliography. ~e­ ries, no.2) · Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, and the American Theological Library Assn. , 1974. 180p. $6.00.. (73-23092). (ISBN 0-8108-0705-X). Clouston, John Samuel.. GILA: A New Ap- proach to Problems in the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials. (Oc- casional Papers, no.112) Urbana, Ill.: Univ. of Illinois, Graduate School of Li- brary Science, 1974. 53p. $1.00. Crowley, Ellen T., ed. New Acronyms and Initialisms 1974. Detroit: Gale Research, 1974. 93p. $30.00 + 1975 supplements. (76-127924). (ISBN 0-8103-0501-1). De Sola, Ralph. Abbreviations Dictionary. New International 4th ed. New York: American Elsevier, 1974. 428p. $24.50. (73-7687). (ISBN 0-444-00139-5). Donnelly, F. Dolores. The National Library of Canada. Ottawa: Canadian Library Assn., 1973. 281p. $15.00. (ISBN 0-88802-096-1) . Downs, Robert B. Books and History. Ur- bana, Ill.: Univ. of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science, 1974. 83p. $4.50. (74-62006). (ISBN 0-87845- 039-4). Duckles, Vincent, comp. Music Reference and Research Materials, An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Free Press, 1974. 526p. (73-10697). (ISBN 0-02- 907700-1). Eagon, Angelo. Catalog of Published Con- cert Music by American Composers. 2d supp. to 2d ed. Metuchen, N.J.: Scare- crow, 1974. 148p. $6.00. (68-9327). (ISBN 0-8108-0728-9). Edelstein, J. M. WaUace Stevens: A De- scriptive Bibliography. (Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography) Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Pr., 1973. 429p. $24.00. (72- 911 06). (ISBN 0-8229-3268-7) . Eichelberger, Clayton L., comp. A Guide to Critical Reviews of United States Fic- tion, 1870-1910. Vol. II. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1974. 351p. '$10.00. (77- 149998). (ISBN 0-8108-0701-7). Gale Research Company. The National Recent Publications I 381 Faculty Directory 197 4. Vol. I & II. De- troit: Gale Research, 1974. Vol. I 1,058p., Vol. II 2,050p. $77.50. (76- 114404). (ISBN 0-8103-0651-4). Johnson, Donald Bruce, and Porter, Kirk H., comps. National Party Plat- forms 1840-1972. Urbana, Ill.: Univ. of Illinois Pr., 1973. 889p. ( 73-81566) . (ISBN 0-252-00414-0). Jones, Charles Edwin. A Guide to the Study of the Holiness Movement. (ATLA Bibliography Series, no.1) Me- tuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, and the Ameri- can Theological Library Assn., 197 4. 918p. $27.50. (74-659) . (ISBN 0-8108- 0703-3). Kent, Rosalind. Reading the Russian Lan- guage: A Guide for Librarians and Oth- er Professionals. New York: Marcel Dek-· ker, Inc., 1974. 229p. (74-81799). (ISBN 0-824 7-6236-3) . Martell, Paul, and Hayes, Grace P., eds. World Military Leaders. New York: Bowker; Dunn Loring, Va.: T. N. Dupuy Associates, 1974. 268p. $25.00. (74- 78392). (ISBN 0-8352-0785-4). Matos, Antonio, ed. & comp. Guia a las resenas de libros de y sobre M ispano- america [A Guide to Reviews of Books from and about Hispanic America]. Puer- to Rico: Ediciones Puerto, 1973. 412p. ( Dep06ito Legal: B. 14.404-1973). Owen, Dolores B., and Hanchey, Mar- guerite M. Abstracts and Indexes in Sci- ence and Technology: A Descriptive Guide. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1974. 168p. $6.00. (73-1345). (ISBN 0-8108- 0709-2). Pavlakis, Christopher. The American Music Handbook. New York: Free Press, 1974. 836p. (73-2127). Phillips, Don. A Selected Bibliography of Music Librarianship. (Occasional Papers, no.113) Urbana, Ill.: Univ. of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science, 1974. 47p. $1.00. Rogers, A. Robert. The Humanities: A Se- lective Guide to Information Sources. (Library Science Text Series) Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1974. 400p. $9.50. ( 7 4-78393). (ISBN 0-87287-091- X). Shores, Louis. Audiovisual Librarianship: The Crusade for Media Unit, 1946-1969. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 382 I College & Research Libraries • September 1974 1973. 160p. $8.50. (73-85472). (ISBN 0-87287-07.6-6). Smith, J. I. Library and Information Ser- vices for Special Groups. New York: Sci- ence Associates/ International Inc., 197 4. 337p. $22.50. (72-93999). (ISBN 0- 8737-003-X). Thomas, P. A., and Ward, Valerie A., eds. The Corporate Approach to Library Management. Proceedings of a One-Day Conference for Chief Librarians from Lo- cal Authority and Educational I nstitu- tions, 22 June 1973. London: Aslib, 1974. 54p. (SBN 85142-056-7). Thompson, James. An Introduction to Uni- versity Library Administration. 2d ed., rev. Hamden, Conn.: Linnet Books; Lon- don: Clive Bingley, 1974. 164p. $7.50. ( 73-22337). (ISBN 0-208-01352-0) . Thompson, James. J . .Abrary Power: A New Philosophy of Librarianship. Hamden, Conn.: Linnet Books; London: Clive Bingley, 1974. lllp. $6.50. (74-6330). (ISBN 0-208-013'79-2). World Guide to Scientific Associations. 1st ed. New York: Bowker; Pullach/ Munich: Verlag Dokumentation, 1974. 48lp. (ISBN 3-7940-1013-2).