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convincing. Foskett's premise is that an ef-
fective classificatory scheme needs to sur-
round the organization of knowledge. To 
an American steeped in the alphabetical in-
-dex tradition, the premise is enlightening 
and its presentation superb. However, when 
one examines such sophisticated tools as the 
HRAF Press' A Cross-Cultural Summary, 
Foskett's denial of the computer's present 
ability and or its future utility begins to 
grow suspect. 

Like the text, the bibliographies of each 
chapter have been updated unevenly. Carl 
White's Sources of Information in the Social 
Sciences appears, but it is the 1964 edition 
that is listed. No mention is made of the 
1973 revision. The H: W. Wilson Compa-
ny's Social Sciences Index retains the name 
of its grandparent: International Index. In 
some chapters the bibliographies represent 
a valuable source of new ideas (many of 
which are not discussed in the text), while 
in other chapters few new references are 
provided. 

After eleven years Foskett is able to re-
peat, almost verbatim, his entire conclusion 
which nears its end with the thought that 
"much closer collaboration between special-
ists and librarians" is still required. In 1963 
Foskett discovered the intellectual base of 
the librarian's work. His first edition pro-
jected the feeling of being at the edge of 
new thoughts. His rejection of the computer 
as a useful tool for the librarian might have 
been justified in that work of the early 
1960s. Now, in the mid 1970s, Foskett has 
changed little. He continues to emphasize 
work done in 1960 and 1961. While his 
conclusion may still be valid, the evidence 
is no longer convincing. 

For those who require a comprehensive 
grounding in indexing and classification for 
the social sciences, either edition will suf-
fice nicely. For those who need a descrip-
tion of the cutting edge of the research 
front, however, this revision is not recom-
mended.-Scott Bruntjen, Assistant Profes-
sor and Head of the Ref.erence Depart-
ment, Ezra Lehman Memorial Library, 
Shippensburg State College, Shippensburg, 
Pennsylvania. 

Advances in Librarianship. Volume 5. Edit-
ed by Melvin J. Voigt. New York: Aca-
demic Press, 1975. $19.50. (LC 79-

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88675) (ISBN 0-12-785005-8) 
In the preface to volume 1 (1970) of 

Advances in Librarianship, Melvin Voigt, 
the editor, stated that "there has long been 
a need for a continuing series to provide 
scholarly reviews of the rapidly changing 
and advancing field of librarianship, a se-
ries which would select subjects with par-
ticular current significance to the profession 
and provide an analysis of the advances 
made through research and practice." 

One promise of this series was that it 
would present critical articles and surveys 
based on the published literature, research 
in progress, and developments in different 
types of libraries. This volume contains nine 
review articles on such diverse topics as in-
formation viewed as an international re-
source, planning for library and information 
services in a number of countries, the co-
ordination of technical services, sound re-
cordings, and joint academic libraries. In 
this respect it is a readable and more or less 
permanently useful reference volume that 
comfortably takes its place beside the four 
earlier volumes. · 

Another promise of this series was that, 
since mechanization and automation were 
seen as "the most obvious of the advancing 
fronts · of librarianship," advances in these 
fields were certain to be found in every vol-
ume in the series. This promise was carried 
out in each of the four previous volumes in 
a variety of special articles. No one article 
in volume 5 is devoted to automation, as 
such, but it naturally surfaces in articles 
like that of Helen Welch Tuttle on the 
"Coordination of the Technical Servi'ces." 

Still another promise of the series, of 
which Helen Tuttle is a good example, is 
that the authors would be experts who are 
closely associated with the subjects under 
review. Lester Asheim of the Graduate Li-
brary School, University of Chicago, con-
tributed "Trends in Library Education-
United States," which admirably covers the 
most recent decade's concern about the di-
rection of and the quality of education for 
librarians. Usefully appended to the Asheim 
article are the American Library Associa-
tion's statement of policy called "Library 
Education and Manpower" and "Standards 
for Accreditation (1972)." Foster Mohr-
hardt and Carlos Victor Penna contributed 
"National Planning for Library and Infor-



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mation Services," and Irving Lieberman 
contributed "Audiovisual Services in Li-
braries." 

It is difficult to be unimpressed with the 
careful references to the best available liter-
ature on all the subjects. In Jacques To-
catlian' s article on "International Informa-
tion Systems" reference librarians will dis-
cover that they have ready access to both 
the familiar abbreviations of and fully an-
glicized titles of most of the institutions 
and agencies, of whatever origin, that are 
concerned with cooperation in the transfer 
of information, as well as to the official 
names of the information systems in exis-
tence whose literature coverage tends to be 
worldwide. 

This volume of the Advances in Librari-
anship series is a worthy companion to the 
earlier volumes and takes its place as an-
other volume of "permanently useful refer-
ence volumes," to quote still another prom-
ise for the series.-Richard L. O'Keeffe, 
University Librarian, Rice University, 
Houston, Texas. 

Reynolds, Michael M., and Daniel, Eve-
lyn H., eds. Reader in Library and In-
formation Services. Englewood, Colo.: 
Microcard Editions, 1974. 618p. $15.95, 
paper. (LC 73-94310) (ISBN 0-910972-
25-7) 
This collection of thirty-seven articles, 

the fourteenth volume to appear in the 
Reader Series in Library and Information 
Science edited by Paul Wasserman, ad-
mirably meets a major objective set for this 
series: to assemble in convenient format the 
essential elements required for a current 
overview of the subject matter comprising 
library and information sciences. The col-
lection conforms to a model of open sys-
tems theory which, in the editors' opinion, 
has the unifying power and the capacity to 
relate efforts in other fields and disciplines 
to librarianship. If there is a criterion guid-
ing the selection of articles, it is that the 
item contribute to the construct of library 
and information services as "involving prin-
ciples and as a process involving ongoing 
forces" (p.xviii). 

The collection is divided into seven parts 
corresponding to the conceptual framework 
provided by open systems theory. In the 
first part, "The Systems Approach to Li-

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brarianship," the open systems concept is 
introduced via discussion by Michael Reyn-
olds and Evelyn Daniel and an excerpt 
from The Social Psychology of Organiza-
tions by psychologists Daniel Katz and 
Robert Kahn. Successive parts follow a 
model of the theory analyzing library and 
information sciences in terms of the various 
library functions or subsystems and relating 
them to the whole, the institution of the 
library. 

In the second part, "The Environment 
and the Library," environmental factors are 
considered with emphasis on the different 
missions and user groups associated with 
different types of libraries. 

The third part, entitled "The Manage-
ment Subsystem," contains an article by 
Monypenny, a political scientist, on the for-
mulation and articulation of poli'cy and one 
by Norman Baker, an industrial engineer, 
and Richard Meier, an urban planner, on 
the dynamics of library policy development 
as exemplified by the university library en-
vironment. The technical or implementation 
level of management is covered briefly 
through a sample annual report (Minne-
apolis Public Library) and a paper concern-
ing the impact of technology on the library 
building. 

The fourth part, "Boundary Activities," 
concerns the library's immediate interaction 
with its environment, hence all activities 
directly concerned with users; thereby en-
compassing the process of communication 
(Wilbut Schramm's "How Communication 
Works';) and the specific areas of reference 
(Robert Taylor's "Question-Negotiation and 
Information-Seeking in Libraries"), collec-
tion development and selection policies (a 
paper by the sociologist, Herbert Cans, con-
cerning public libraries), censorship (an 
excerpt from Marjorie Fiske's Book Selec-
tion and Censorship), and library coopera-
tion (an article by Ralph Esterquest de-
scribing twelve major programs). 

Acquisitions, cataloging, subject analysis, 
and classification in both their theoretical 
and practical aspects are discussed in the 
fifth part, entitled "The Production Sub-
system." 

The sixth part is entitled "The Mainte-
nance Subsystem," in which the editors 
present selections dealing with the be-
havioral characteristics necessary for a so-