College and Research Libraries


230/ College & Research Libraries • May 1975 

Tsuneishi, Warren M.; Buckman, Thomas 
R.; and Suzuki, Yukihisa, eds. Issues in 
Library Administration. Papers Pre-
sented at the Second United States-Ja-
pan Conference on Libraries and Infor-
mation Science in Higher Education, 
Racine, Wisconsin, October 17-20, 1972. 
New York: Columbia Univ. Pr., 1974. 
181p. $7.50. 
Produced by the Japanese University Li-

braries National Committee and the Amer-
ican Library Association International Ad-
visory Committee for Liaison with Japanese 
Libraries, this collection contains twelve pa-
pers relating to Japanese and American uni-
versity library science. The five Japanese 
papers describe past developments, where-
as the five American papers discuss present 
and predicted changes. Change is a com-
mon thread running through this volume. 

The Japanese papers deal with adminis-
trative reforms in university libraries, the 
change in the library director's status and 
role, changes in organization, administra-
tion, management, library personnel, and 
interlibrary cooperation. Each paper points 
to the need for further development and 
improved service, often suggesting the use 
of more professional librarians. The Amer-
ican papers describe corresponding Amer-
ican changes in library administration, de-
cision making, staffing, and interlibrary co-
operation. The final papers by Liebaers and 
Burkhardt form a curious supplement. 
Liebaers makes incisive observations con-
cerning international library associations 
and group cooperation. He makes one per-
tinent remark, however, that the Japan-U.S. 
library meetings tend to emphasize the two 
countries' differences rather than similar-
ities, because the former greatly outnumber · 
the latter. Burkhardt describes very briefly 
the U.S. National Commission on Library 
and Information Science and Japan-U.S. re-
lations at the research level. The best pa-
pers are those by McDonald on cooperation 
and Liebaers on the international scene. 

Obviously, the 1972 Racine conference pa-
pers can be compared with the 1969 To-
kyo conference papers, University and Re-
search Libraries in the United States (ALA, 
1972). The first volume introduced the se-
ries and contained basic and descriptive pa-

pers on the librarianship of each nation, 
while the 1974 volume is much more gen-
eral in approach. 

The purposes of the conferences are un-
clear. Presenting international views on uni-
versity administrative problems, seeking to 
define library and information science issues 
relating to higher education and research 
in the two countries, discovering workable 
forms of library cooperation, and exploring 
ways to cooperate are the subjects included. 
More importantly, perhaps, the conferences 
were merely one element in a wider liaison 
and interchange program. Providing leader-
ship and exchange continuity between the 
two librarian groups, assuring an equal 
partnership in pursuing problem solutions, 
involving policymakers, providing profes-
sional growth opportunities and consultants, 
and developing cooperative- projects were 
additional purposes listed in the two vol-
umes. The resolutions from this second con-
ference suggest an additional conference, 
reaffirm the original resolutions, invite other 
countries and younger colleagues to partici-
pate, encourage additional exchange, and 
establish an implementation group. Confer-
ence widening to cover other countries and 
less influential colleagues raises questions 
concerning essential conference purposes. 

What have been tangible conference re-
sults? Apparently, only the conference re-
ports. The librarians' attention in each 
country has been focused on university li-
brary problems and progress of the other 
country. For Japanese librarians literate in 
English, the papers may present U.S. objec-
tives toward which their own libraries may 
be pointed. For Japanese librarians not lit-
erate in English, there can be little value. 
Apparently the conferences were based on 
the assumption that developments in one 
country are useful for the other country to 
know about, but just how and why is not 
clear. The value of such a current assess-
ment is not clarified, and no further analy-
sis is given of the data presented. A fault 
of the papers is their oversimplification and 
generality. Often the information given is 
inadequate to enable the reader to inter-
pret a situation correctly. The book has not 

·been rigorously edited; many first person 
pronouns are retained in the text. It con-



tains few footnotes, no bib1iographies, and 
no conference discussions. 

This book is a useful contribution to in-
ternational library science but has no pre-
tention to being a comparative library sci-
ence study. Hopefully, useful and scholarly 
Japan-U.S. university library research will 
be carried on in the future. The book can 
be recommended for libraries interested in 
international library science, particularly in 
Japanese libraries. It updates existing En-
glish literature on the subject and is at-
tractively printed and durably bound.-
] ohn F. Harvey, Dean of Library Services, 
Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York. 

Szigethy, Marion C. Maurice Fawolm Tau-
ber, A Biobibliography, 1934-1973. 
Foreword by Jack Dalton. (Beta Phi Mu, 
Nu Chapter, Columbia University School 
of Library Service Publications, no.1) 
Metuchen, N.J.: Published for Beta Phi 
Mu, Nu Chapter, Columbia University 
School of Library Service, by Scarecrow, 
1974. 121p. 

This small book is an alternative form of 
a Festschrift. To honor Professor Tauber's 
long service as a teacher, colleagues, stu-
dents, and friends have put together an 
opus composed of five appreciations, a 
chapter by Tauber on his main claim to 
fame ("Survey Method Approach to Li-
brary Problems") and an extensive bibliog-
raphy. The appreciations take up twenty 
pages and, of course, are appreciative. The 
twenty-three-page survey chapter by Tau-
ber is an original contribution which sums 
up his philosophy and methodology. The 
bibliography of fifty-one pages is divided 
into nine parts: Papers; Monographs; Con-
tributions to Other Works; Forewords and 
Introductions to Other Works; Library Sur-
veys; Contributions to Conferences, In-
stitutes, and Meetings; Course Outlines; 
Journal Contributions; and a section "About 
Maurice Falcolm Tauber." The remainder 
of the book comprises data about the con-
tributors and an index which is interesting 
in itself. This review will be limited to the 
bibliography, since this is the main part of 
the book. 

The term "biobibliography" describing 

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Tauber's output is used in an archival sense 
in that the material listed includes a number 
of items to show the fullness of activity un-
dertaken by Tauber rather than being lim-
ited to that scholarly output which normal-
ly is found in a faculty member's bibliog-
raphy. For example, the first section notes 
an archive of 30,000 papers (1939-1965) 
given to the Columbia University Library. 
The thoroughness of the bibliography offers 
a field day to anyone interested in biblio-
metrics. 

The second section, "Monographs," for 
instance, consists of eight pamphlets, a 
dissertation, one long committee report, one 
circulated draft, twelve monographs in the 
standard definition of the term, and ninety-
four reviews of these monographs. Of the 
twelve monographs proper, eight were 
written and four were edited collections of 
the works of others. Of the written works, 
two were done alone and six with a collab-
orator or, in one case, with several. One of 
the joint efforts (Wilson and Tauber) went 
into a second edition and was also trans-
lated into Spanish. Of the edited items, one 
was done alone and three with collabora-
tors. One of the joint edited efforts (Book 
Catalogs) went into a second edition. Of 
the ninety-four reviews, forty-eight were of 
books by or about Louis Round Wilson. 

The section, "Library Surveys," includes 
surveys of all kinds of libraries: Australian, 
five (twenty-five reviews or news items); 
university and college, forty-six (eleven re-
views) ; public, five (three reviews) ; state, 
nine; and special, twelve. Of these, thirty-
two surveys were made by Tauber alone 
and forty-five jointly or in a team (his pre-
ferred method) . Also included are nine ar-
ticles about making library surveys. Tau-
ber's own chapter in the book, on the sub-
ject of survey-making, distills the experi-
ence of thirty years in evaluating libraries 
by this method. 

More sophisticated techniques may be 
applied to such an extended corpus of data. 
Not only will the future biographer of Tau-
ber be well served by this collection, but 
also the historian of the era covered by his 
work will find in it sources for a study of 
what was considered important and why 
it was thought to be so. Further studies by