College and Research Libraries initating and could have been easily re- paired by a good editor. But I do not mean to be overly critical. In spite of its defects, the book is clear and easy to understand. It provides a general frame of reference which is applicable to any type of library. In expanding on the principles presented, -the authors draw on examples from recent academic library management literature as well as that of public and school libraries. The book does not duplicate other library management publications such as Lowell's Management of Libraries, Rogers and Weber's University Library Administration, or Hamburg's Li- brary Planning and Decision Making Sys- tems. It is a practical and useful guide to the world of library management.-Dale B. Canelas, Assistant Director for Public Services, Stanford University Libraries. Magrill, Rose Mary, and Rinehart, Con- stance, comps. Library Technical Ser- vices: A Selected, Annotated Bibliogra- phy. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977. 238p. $14.95. LC 76-27130. ISBN 0-8371-9286-2. Anyone needing quick, easy access to the major literature of current, general interest on technical services will find this new bib- liography useful. The serious researcher will still need to use Library Literature, but the person wanting to become familiar with a topic probably will find sufficient entries in this book without struggling through excess material. The authors promise a supple- ment, which will be necessary if the book is to remain topical. Most of the 1,27 4 entries have dates within the past ten years. Those with earlier dates are bibliographies and reviews of a year or are concerned with general principles and topics of historical interest, such . as the emergence of approval plans, or do not date readily (e.g., repair and preservation of materials). Foreign material is not included, but selected ERIC docu- ments are. Each entry is briefly annotated, and bibliographies in the material are men- tioned with pages or number of references listed. The book is divided into seven broad subject headings with each heading sub- divided into several smaller areas and ar- Recent Publications I 429 ranged in chronological order. The topics included are organization of technical ser- vices and management and administration of the acquisition, organization, mainte- nance, and circulation of materials, serials, and special materials. There is a name in- dex and a separate subject index. Most technical services librarians and teachers of technical services courses will want a copy. Others without access to Li-:- brary Literature or without the time to use it adequately also will find this book help- fuL-Martha Willett, Technical Services Librarian, Indiana State University, Evans- ville. Advances in Librarianship. Volume 7. Edit- ed by Melvin J. Voigt and Michael H. Harris. New York: Academic Press, 1977. 348p. $22.50. LC 79-88675. ISBN 0-12- 785007-4. Volume 7 of Advances in Librarianship reflects the changing world of librarianship. Five of the contributions deal with the con- tinuing traditional concerns of librarianship, such as classification ( Ingetraut Dahlberg's YOU WILL HAVE- "CONFIDENCE" In Our Complete Periodicals Service- All American and Foreign Titles Promptne11 is a Traditional part of McGre1or S.rvico , • , as woll as: • EXPERIENCE • TRAINED PERSONNEL • FINANCIAL STABILITY • AMPLE FACILITIES • RESPONSIBLE MANAGEMENT An attractive ltrfKIIuro ;, availaltle lor tile aslrint. OUR 44th YEAR MOUNT MORRIS, ILLINOIS 61054 430 I College & Research Libraries • September 1977 "Major Developments in Classification"), li- brary development and history (Simeon B. Aje's "National Libraries in Developing Countries" and W. A. Munford's "The American Library Association and the Li- brary Association"), and the use and role of libraries (D. Zweizig and B. Dervin's "Public Library Use, Users, Uses" and Gor- don Stevenson's "Popular Culture and the Public Library"). The three other contributions reflect the more 1·ecent concerns of information sci- ence (F. W. Lancaster's "Vocabulary Con- trol in Information Retrieval Systems," Anne Wilkin's "Personal Roles and Barriers in Information Transfer," and Robert N. Broadus' "The Application of Citation Anal- yses to Library Collection Building") . As usual, Advances in Librarianship pre- sents well-documented, state-of-the-art stud- ies on a small number of specific topics- some broad, some narrow. In general, the articles which deal with the traditional topics provide wide-ranging surveys. The contribution on classification, for example, presents a brief history of classification, comparisons of six universal systems in use today, and a review of recent developments. Similarly, Aje's survey and Munford's his- torical review contain broad, although by no means exhaustive, reviews of their top- ics. Aje discusses twenty-six national or quasi-national libraries in alphabetical or- der, from Belize to Uganda. Half of the li- braries are in Africa, with the other half almost equally divided among Asia, Central and South America, and the Middle East. The information, based on questionnaires, is somewhat uneven but still useful. Munford presents an nverview of the origins, history, development, organization, and contributions of ALA and the Library Associ::ftion. American readers may be sur- prised to note the role of American li- brarians in the founding of the Library As- sociation . It was in large part the success of the 1876 Philadelphia conference which led E. B. Nicholson "to suggest the first British conference which eventually took place in London in October 1877. This one was certainly international in its scope, but it owed much to the fifteen Americans pres- ent, twelve of whom had been at Phila- delphia. . . . Some of the most significant contributions to the London conference were in fact made by Poole and by Jus tin Winsor" (p.151-52). The articles dealing with such aspects of information as vocabulary control, barriers to information transfer, and citation analy- ses are narrower in scope. Thus, Broa-dus' article 1s concerned with a very specific question: "Whether the hundreds of pub- lished citation studies can help in dealing with [the problem of selection of appropri- ate titles for any given library from the uni- verse of over 200 million books published since Gutenberg]-whether, in large li- braries particularly such analyses hold the promise of improving the odds that materi- als chosen will mesh with users' needs and demands" (p.301-2). Broadus finds some evidence that "there do seem to be parallels between use of ma- terials as indicated by citation patterns and as shown by studies of requests in libraries, especially in relation to the needs of people engaged in research" (p.319). Neverthe- less, as Broadus himself states, "most cita- tion studies measure use by sophisticated scholars, and would not be expected to cor- relate strongly with undergraduate and popular demands. . . . The library profes- sion is not close to discovering any truly valid measure for predicting requests in a given library'' (p.315). In his contribution on information re- trieval, Lancaster postulates "the continued growth of machine-readable data bases and the continued expansion of on-line systems to make these files widely accessible" ( p.33). He then predicts the resulting problem of noncompatibility of the various controlled vocabularies will lead to recon- ciliation of vocabularies by human analysis, by machine conversion, or by the use of a switching language ("intermediate lexi- con"). Volume 7 of Advances in Librarianship maintains the qualitative level of its prede- cessors. While some of the topics have been dealt with in earlier volumes and others are treated here for the first time, there is no duplication. Indeed, taken as a whole, the series provides a useful, albeit far from comprehensive, encyclopedia of articles on basic topics of the profession, ranging from the school library (val. 1) to censorship (val. 2) and from academic library build- ings (val. 3) to productivity measures (val. 6) . All volumes in this series will be wanted in academic and research libraries and should be considered basic reading for serious students of library and information science.-Fred Blum, Director, Center of Educational Resources, Eastern Michigan Urniversity, Ypsilanti. Grogan, Denis. Science and Technology: An Introduction to the Literature. 3rd ed. rev. London: Clive Bingley; Hamden, Conn.: Linnet Books, 1976. 343p. $12.50. LC 76-43272. ISBN 0-85157- 223-5 Bingley; 0-208-1534-5 Linnet. It may be convenient to categorize all books of this sort as "guides to the litera- ture." However, the present author aptly distinguishes between two types. The "ref- erence book" type strives for comprehen- siveness in its listing and annotations; Malinowsky's Science and Engineering Ref- erence Sources and Jenkins' Science Refer- ence Sources are familiar examples. The "textbook type," on the other hand, empha- sizes the function which each type of pub- lication performs in the overall pattern of information transfer; and illustrative ex- amples are then incorporated in the text. The Grogan volume is a "textbook" type in- tended for students; Parker and Turley's Information Sources in Science and Tech- nology is another but in its case is designed for the working scientist or engineer. While the second edition was enlarged about 10 percent over the first, this third edition is some 35 percent larger than its predecessor. Whole new chapters have been added on "Computerized Data Bases" and "Microforms." Three chapters have each been expanded by 50 percent: "The Literature," "Periodicals," and "Books in the Field." In nearly all instances, growth is not due to added examples; many of these are carried over from the preceding edition, though there is a good salting of later dates as well. Enlargement derives from discussion of additional aspects of sci- entific information and dissemination (oral communication, user studies, cost implica- tions to libraries, prospect for alternative modes of publication, etc.). Recent Publications I 431 A particular excellence is the care with which Grogan tries to develop the reader's capacity to make distinctions. Students are repeatedly cautioned not to be misled by titles (e.g., "Encyclopedia of ... ") and re- minded that needed forms of literature are often buried in other forms (e.g., bibliogra- phies published in journals). It is quite im- portant to read the whole book, since items relevant to a given factor occur in unex- pected chapters. Of caveats and shortcomings there are few. The British origin influences the ap- proach of certain sections, such as that of patenting procedures. Discussion of com- puterized data bases reflects the relative ab- sence at the time of writing of on-line services familiar to U.S. readers. The chap- ter on "Indexing and Abstracting Services" is perhaps the least satisfactory; some of the information on the Bibliography of Agricul- ture and the defunct Pandex is out of date, and differentiation between printed and machine-readable formats is occasionally blurred. The index intentionally excludes any mention of individual titles, since they are said to be "examples" only. Nonetheless, the reader will often wish to look up the treatment of a known example and to find it embedded in a section on similar works. Finally, there is scanty documentation for the scores of supporting and illuminating statements and for the well-chosen quota- tions and other included intelligence. The author considers "excess of bibliographic scruple is out of place in a textbook for students." Perhaps he underestimates how intriguing his references are, or the number of "keen" readers who might wish to pursue them. Writing in an eminently readable style, Grogan provides the reader with the ft.Ill flavor and feel of the literature and qf the scope and variety of the "information prob- lem." Not only students will find illumina- tion, but experienced librarians; scientists, and engineers will benefit from reading this book.-Irma Y. Johnson, Science Librarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hebrew Printing and Bibliography. Studies by Joshua Bloch and Others, Reprinted from the Publications of the New York