College and Research Libraries Errors not thus caught are trusted to be found by "relying on library users to tell them later if the cataloguing content is faulty." The second conference, at which time a British "MARC Users' Group" was official- ly established, concerned itself-in the con- text of MARC use-with the relationship of the using libraries to book dealers, to the national library, and to future developments of automation. The seven papers-from a book dealer, the British Library, public li- braries, a college library, and the Birming- ham cooperative-are of interest insofar as they document current automatio.n uses and plans in Great Britain. Whereas one public library (ca . 13,000 orders per year) found that only an expensive on-line CRT config- uration could better its manual system, the book dealer enthusiastically reported highly satisfactory flexibility with a complete on- line random access facility which has al- lowed him to realize "multiple output from single input." The magnitude of the users of the British Library's BRIMARC tape service (twenty- six subscribers of which ten are outside the United Kingdom) is dwarfed by the num- ber using LC' s program, yet the library has some grand intentions (e.g., convert all BNB ( 1950 on) to MARC; begin CIP in 1976). The college library described re- ceiving shelf-ready books while using MARC for the cataloging copy but com- plained of the quality of LC' s use of DC 18, of the invariable use of record type "am" (printed monograph) for all forms of material, and of confusion and error in usage and appearance of the ISBN . The approaches to technical services au- tomation may be new, although the prob- lems discussed are not; however, these reports only underline the urgency for im- plementation of international standards.- Robert H. Breyfogle, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California. Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange ( CLENE) . Proceedings, First CLENE Assembly, Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois, January 23-24, 1976. Washington, D.C.: Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange, 1976. 165p. $5.00. Continuing Education Opportunities for Li- brary, Information, and Media Personnel, Recent Publications I 257 Remately- accessible Canversatianal Prar:~rams and Data- bases This exclusive Directory contains descrip- tions of thousands of Business. Engineering, Scientific and other pre-packaged, application programs and data-bases that are currently available from computer time-sharing vendors and on line retrieval services in the U.S., Canada and other countries. 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The tone of the Proceedings of this first CLENE Assembly is sharp and clean: If libraries are to survive as agencies of infor- mation amid a jungle of other fiercely com- peting institutions clawing to usurp their place, then librarians need to reassess both the organizational goals of their libraries and their own career goals and shift quickly into high gear, which would direct them away from the concept that the one-year MLS degree is educationally sufficient for survival to the concept that their education must be lifelong. The first assembly of the Continuing Li- brary Education Network and Exchange was held in Chicago little more than a year ago (January 23-24, 1976). Its purpose was to mark an occasion for an "idea whose time has come" in dynamic fashion. Thus the proverbial wisdom that was certain to come out of that conference, together with a recognition of the hard work that still lay ahead, with all of the problems and head- aches inherent in a work of such magni- tude, could not easily be forgotten or ignored. The Proceedings reflect the excitement of the assembly. They are roughly divided into four major content areas: ( 1) a key- note address by Richard Dougherty and Janice Powell in which the authors pose the question: "Is librarianship one of the en- dangered professions?" and in which they look to both library administration and staff to orchestrate and correlate the goals of the individual with and to the goals of the li- brary; ( 2) self-assessment presentations in which continuing education biggies, such as James Liesener, Ruth Patrick, Mary El- len Michael, Duane Webster, and Grover Andrews, present various models for con- tinuing education programs, career plan- ning, and self-development strategies, complete with the suggestion that the li- brary's role in the educational program of the institution and the community might well become the point of focus for a non- traditional self-study; ( 3) a "Model for As- sessing Continuing Education Needs of a Profession," by Malcolm Knowles, in which the author views the impending obsoles- Recent Publications I 259 cence of man as the next century's greatest threat to civilization; and ( 4) summaries of small discussion groups that capture the essence of all of the topics included above, in addition to such pragmatic concerns as developing the criteria for evaluating con- tinuing education programs and financing CLENE. 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