College and Research Libraries Recent Publications COllEGE rr RESEARCH LIBRARIES Great Britain, University Grants Committee. Capital Provision for University Li- braries, reviewed by Richard De Gennaro . 337 Evans, G. Edward. Management Techniques for Librarians, reviewed by A. A. Mitchell . . . . . 338 The Business of Publishing, reviewed by Thomas L. Bonn . 339 Pages, reviewed by Charles Helzer . . . . . . . 339 The Use of Gaming in Education for Library Management, reviewed by Martha Jane K. Zachert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 Doyle, James M., and Grimes, George H. Reference Resources, reviewed by Jean Herold . 342 The Information Age, reviewed by Fay Zipkowitz 342 Designing a National Scientific and Technological Communication System: The SCATT Report, reviewed by Jay K. Lucker . . . . . 343 Pollard, Alfred William, Alfred William Pollard: A Selection of His Essays, reviewed by David E. Estes . . 344 Voices from the Southwest, reviewed by William R. Holman . 346 Books and Undergraduates, reviewed by Robert J. Merikangas . 346 A Century of Service, reviewed by Phyllis Dain . 347 Fang, Josephine Riss, and Songe, Alice H. Internat·ional Guide to Library, Archival, and Information Science Associations, reviewed by Elisabeth H. Nebehay . 348 Martin, Susan K. Library Networks, 1976-77, reviewed by Darrell H. Lemke . 350 A Search for New Insights in Librarianship, reviewed by William Vernon Jackson 352 Johnson, Elmer D., and Harris, Michael H. History of Libraries in the Western World, reviewed by W. A. Moffett . 354 Jarvi, Edith. Access to Canadian Government Publications, reviewed by Harry E. Welsh . 355 Conference on Library Orientation, 5th. Faculty Involvement in Library Instruc- tion, reviewed by Allan J. Dyson 356 Weatherford, John W. Collective Bargaining and the Academic Librarian, reviewed by Lothar Spang . . . . 358 Daniells, Lorna M. Business Information Sources, reviewed by Barbara R. Healy 359 Hicks, Warren B., and Tillin, Alma M. Managing Multimedia Libraries, reviewed by Gloria Terwilliger . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360 Collective Bargaining in Higher Education, reviewed by B. Anne Commerton 361 Other Publications of Interest to Academic Librarians 362 BOOK REVIEWS Great Britain, University Grants Commit- tee. Capital Provision for University Li- braries: Report of a Working Party. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Of- fice, 1976. 42p. £ 1.20. ISBN 0-11- 700313-1. During the period of rapid growth and relative affiuence that characterized the last two decades, U.S. academic librarian- ship was in its element and led the way in implementing new technology and innova- tive ideas. But now we have entered an era of austerity and declining growth that is foreign to Americans, and we would be well advised to look abroad for some of the new attitudes and new ideas we will need to help us cope with hard times. Since British librarianship is clearly ahead of us in matters of austerity, we may be able to learn from their experience and proposed solutions. This innocent looking HMSO document is a mine of thought-provoking ideas born of a drying-up of capital funds for univer- ity library construction in Britain in 1975. Anticipating that there were not going to I 337 . 338 I College & Research Libraries • July 1977 be enough resources to build new libraries at all universities at a scale needed to match their growth, the UGC (the body in Britain that allocates funds for universities, including their libraries) established a working party to review the policy for the provision of new buildings and to make rec- ommendations for changes. This is the working party's report. It is nothing less than a complete "re- visionist" view of university librarianship. It questions the vast body of conventional wisdom and received ideas on the natural growth of academic research libraries and puts forth a new, highly controversial con- cept of the "self-renewing library" in which new acquisitions are offset to a consider- able extent by withdrawals. It is a concept that is a natural development in the British library scene and a logical component in an evolving national library system dominated by the same revisionist thinking that pro- duced first the NLL and then the central- ized British library incorporating the BLLD. The report is brief, clear, and well written and should be required reading for all U.S. academic research librarians and network planners. Anthony J. Loveday, the Secretary of the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries ( SCONUL, the British counterpart of ARL), has written a long and highly critical appraisal of the report (Journal of Li- brarianship 9:17-28 [January 1977]) which makes essential supplementary reading for those who want both sides of the argu- ment.-Richard De Gennaro, ·University of Penn sylvania. Evans, G. Edward. Management Tech- niques for Librarians. Library and Infor- mation Science. New York: Academic Press, 1976. 276p. $14.50. LC 75-13089. ISBN 0-12-243850-7. This book is intended as a text for gradu- ate students in library management courses. The author, who teaches at UCLA, states he found no satisfactory text, and that is in- deed a reflection of the state of the art. He makes a distinction between books on li- brary administration dealing with the orga- nization of services for a particular type of library (of which there are a number avail- able) and one which would present basic organizational and managerial techniques common to all libraries and other enter- prises. Since libraries have depended quite heavily on the "sink or swim" approach in terms of managerial skills, this book does fill a need, but to a limited extent. The au- thor himself doubts that library manage- ment can be taught in the sense of catalog- ing or acquisitions. At the least, some mis- takes and pitfalls may be avoided. Management Techniques for Librarians pulls together standard material drawn from the literature of administrative science and organizes it into fourteen chapters on: library management; history of manage- ment; styles of management and organiza- tional thought; creativity and the library; decision making; planning; delegation; delegation of authority; communications; motivation; personnel; finance; work analy- sis; and management, librarians, and the future. Each chapter has a bibliography of one to two pages including numerous arti- cles from the literature of librarianship as well as old standbys from the field of ad- ministration. There is an index. Each of the chapters summarizes the various schools of thought with much list- ing of steps and attributes, virtues and faults. Illustrative library examples are pro- vided. Too often, however, the library ap- plications are perfunctory; or there is inadequate editorial transference into the world of libraries, and the orientation re- mains industrial or commercial. In general, the author has done a decent job of organizing and summarizing the ma- terial which is traditionally used, but there's not anything new here. For example, in the chapter on motivation he runs through Mas- low's hierarchy of needs, McGregor's Theo- ry X and Theory Y, Argyris' continuum, the Herzberg model, and several others. There are stages in management meth- ods, and the in-words change frequently. A few recent ones that he missed: manage- ment by objectives, zero-base budgeting, and MRAP. Some matters of current interest are dealt with summarily. Participative man- agement, although listed in the index, never gets mentioned in the four pages of text dealing with committees, a different empha-