College and Research Libraries 358 I College & Research Libraries • July 1977 Jacquelyn Morris' description of one li- brary's battle with its faculty to receive approval for its credit course in library use. Since only five of the fifteen speeches re- corded in the volume were given by faculty members, it is hardly a record of "their views," either. The faculty presentations are surprising- ly lightweight-generally either bland, if pleasant, endorsements of library instruc- tion or arguments for making it conform to the professor's somewhat obscure perspec- tive. The latter papers contain such nuggets as "a librarian with little or no background in chemistry . . . would be understandably reluctant to help a student needing to use [Chemical Abstracts], much less be in- volved in any instruction," which at least serves as a useful reminder that the librari- an's skills are not yet fully understood by our faculty colleagues. What's left? If one ignores the lack of a well-defined theme, there are some good papers on varying topics. Susan Edwards presents the results of a study at the Uni- versity of Colorado on how faculty perceive that their students learn to use libraries (for example, while 75 percent of the facul- ty only occasionally-or never-explained reference sources in their field, a majority thought the students somehow learned about such resources in other classes or in high school). The study might provide some interesting ammunition for librarians starting instruction programs. Three papers by Susan Lossing, Anne Beaubien, and Mary George, the Universi- ty of Michigan's dynamic trio of graduate- level library instruction specialists, describe their impressive program aimed at graduate students-and what it took to get it going. These papers, along with additional re- marks by Connie Dunlap (then head of Michigan's Graduate Library), are the best in the volume. These proceedings will be of interest mostly to those already involved in library instruction and, of course, should be in li- brary school libraries. They can be skipped by most others, except that librarians hav- ing trouble getting administrative support for instruction programs may wish to slip a copy of Lossing's paper on the need for administrative commitment into their boss's morning maiL-Allan ]. Dyson, Moffitt Un- dergraduate Library, University of C alifor- nia, Berkeley. Weatherford, John W. Collective Bargain- ing and the Academic Librarian. Metuch- en, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1976. 147p. $6.00. LC 76-45424. ISBN 0-8108-0983-4. Experience gained from six years of ac- tive involvement in collective bargaining and from one year of investigative research into the key issues of negotiation has well prepared the author to compile a "primer of collective bargaining for the faculty in general, with special emphasis on academic librarianship." His focus is "the study of mature bargaining relationships involving librarians in four-year colleges and univer- sities in the U.S." The result is a well-re- searched, objective, and intelligent exam- ination of current issues facing academic librarians, unionized or not. The first of the eight chapters covers the historical development of collective bar- gaining on American campuses, paying spe- cial attention to the impact of geographical scope and governmental legislation on bar- gaining, as well as providing an incisive analysis of the causes and process of nego- tiation and a brief sketch of the unions in- volved. Five succeeding chapters deal with the major areas of bargaining: compensation, the bargaining unit, conditions of employ- ment, governance, and contract adminis- tration. Each issue is lucidly identified, and various methods of resolving conflicts are outlined, using specific examples from col- lege and university negotiations throughout the country. Especially helpful are the comprehensive notes identifying related lit- erature, complemented by an appended se- lective bibliography. The work concludes with a summary of the prospects for collective bargaining, in- cluding a thoughtful examination of its im- pact on libraries as well as librarians. His analysis of the effect of bargaining on book selection, library goals, minorities, arid pro- fessionalism is especially significant in that few such appraisals have been written. This is an informative, well-written work for librarians wanting basic information on the "what is" of collective bargaining. If there is a weak point, it concerns the "how." Several times the author mentions that academic librarians have severe prob- lems in collective bargaining because of their minority position in the bargaining unit, but little comment is made as to how to solve this dilemma. Similarly, the author admits that he offers no perspectives pro or con on how librar- ians should view collective bargaining in general. While librarians have long needed a dispassionate assessment of the collective bargaining movement and their place in it, in the case of this book, an objective and thorough treatment of the subject and some concrete concluding opinions from Weath- erford, with his experiences, might have served a very useful purpose. Such minor considerations aside, however, this book is vital reading for all librarians contemplat- ing unionization-or, simply, current issues in librarianship.-Lothar Spang, Assistant to the Director, Wayne State University Li- braries, Detroit, Michigan. Daniells, Lorna ~1. Business Information Sources. Berkeley: Univ. of California Recent Publications I 359 Pr., 1976. 439p. $14.95. LC 7 4-30.517. ISBN 0-520-02946-1. In the past decade in geometrically in- creasing numbers it seems businessmen have come to recognize the importance and necessity of up-to-date information in their problem solving and planning in all areas. Present curricula for business students re- quire accessibility to a wider and wider range of information. There is more infor- mation around and in a greater variety of forms than ever before. Librarians must cope with these growths, and they need all the help they can get. While there is a plethora of satisfactory, timely guides to specific aspects of business, there has not been a satisfactory general comprehensive guide to business sources since the second edition of Edwin T. Co- man's Sources of Business Information in 1964. This new book by Lorna M. Daniells admirably meets the need. Businessmen, business students, and librarians will find it indispensable. She was asked to revise the earlier work; but with the great changes of the past ten years, while the RAPHICS from "The Authority" Three recent issues of Library Reports now available separately: The July 1976 issue includes an illustrated 28-page special report on library microform facilities with floor plans and photographs by Dr. Francis F. Spreitzer, and a survey of microform reader/printers. 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