College and Research Libraries 340 I College & Research Libraries • July 1977 Jr., Managing Editor. Detroit: Gale, 1976- . $24.00 per vol. LC 76-20369. ISBN 0-8103-0925-4. Librarians, as Richard De Gennaro re- cently observed in an American Libraries article, have a hard time saying "no" to a publication with a number on it. In present- ing the library market with the first issue of its annual Pages, Gale Research is very likely, and very reasonably, expecting few of us to say "no." ".Pages," we are told, "is concerned with literary history-construing that term to encompass publishing, librari- anship, bibliography, the book trade, book- collecting, as well as the non-printed media which generate writing." How does one say "no" to that? How, indeed, with this first handsomely bound volume offering us in its 304 pages some thirty-three widely ranging articles and picture features, including a descrip- tion by James Dickey of work in progress, a previously unpublished Big Apple version of the Carmen libretto by Ring Lardner, a report on the Southern Illinois University Press by novelist John Gardner, and a brief but fine essay by bibliographer Fredson T. Bowers on "Recovering the Author's Inten- tions"? Quite clearly, one does not. Libraries will subscribe. They really have no choice. But some may wish they did. It is only a minor irritation that a few articles are a little too perfunctory, a little too clearly just occasional pieces: a rather tedious re- counting by Ray Bradbury of his income over the years, for example, and an article on how to write for television titled "If You Want to Write for TV ... Don't." A more serious and more pervasive shortcoming of Pages is its lack of depth. A sale at Sotheby's, Joseph Heller's writ- ing habits, Scott Fitzgerald's library, de- signing dust jackets, the marketing of Jericho-these and most of the topics treat- ed in this first number are of interest and some value. So much so that one must wish Gale Research had elected to deal with fewer of them, but deal more fully. As it is, libraries are being offered a generously illustrated, imaginatively laid-out, very readable annual that is more, certainly, than a literary Sunday supplement but still rather less than what many academic li- braries would find most usefuL-Charles Helzer, University of Chicago Library. The Use of Gaming in Education for Li- brary Management: Final Report on a Research Project. By Jeannette Daly and others. University of Lancaster Library Occasional Papers, no. 8. Lancaster: Uni- versity of Lancaster Library, 1976. 84p. £2.00. ISBN 0-901699-38-1. ISSN 0075- 7810. This report is the final one growing out of a series of operational and educational research studies: it is, however, much more than the expected summary of the stages and conclusions of more than five years of research. Additionally, it is a review of re- cent literature on educational simulation (78 references), a cogent argument for in- cluding techniques of planning in library school curricula, the explication of a meth- odology for costing the operation of a pro- totype educational game (Appendix D), and a design for the evaluation and testing of a library management game. The main body of the report is devoted to the development of three games and their description: (I) loan and duplication policies game; (2) book processing game (both computerized and manual versions); and (3) interlibrary loan game. The state- ment of the development of the games in- cludes the formative testing of the games during which the library education commu- nity in Great Britain was introduced to their use. The evaluation described is pri- marily from this formative testing period; summative testing is not emphasized. The general comments on the evaluation of ex- periential teaching materials are excellent (as is the literature review), and the care- ful display of costing procedures of these games-a first in library literature-is ex- tremely useful to other game developers. The report should be included in collec- tions serving library educators, both those in degree education and those in continu- ing and in-service education. The concern of the researchers for basing their ·models on research, for formative testing, and for costing are especially noteworthy for game developers among library educators.- Martha Jane K. 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