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Design for Diversity: Library Services for Higher Education and Research in Au-
stralia, reviewed by Murray S. Martin · . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 

Academic Libraries by the Year 2000: Essays Honoring jerrold Orne, reviewed by 
Hugh C . Atkinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 

Basic Manual Series , reviewed by Patrick M. Quinn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 
Smith, Jessie Carney. Black Academic Libraries and Research Collections, reviewed 

by Casper LeRoy Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 
Barker, Nicolas. The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning, 1478-1978, 

reviewed by David Kaser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 
Librarians of Congress , 1802-1974 , reviewed by Jeanne Osborn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 
Thompson, Susan Otis. American Book Design and William Morris, reviewed by 

Tyrus G. Harmsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 322 
Chen, Ching-chih. Scientific and Technical Information Sources, reviewed by David 

Kuhner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 
Muehsam, Gerd. Guide to Basic Information Sources in the Visual Arts, reviewed by 

Lamia Doumato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324 
Benjamin, Curtis G . A Candid Critique of Book Publishing, reviewed by Mary E . 

Thatcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 
Foskett, A. C. The Subject Approach to Information. 3d ed., reviewed by Richard B. 

O'Keeffe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 
Bolte, Charles G. Libraries and the Arts and Humanities, reviewed by Thomas L. 

Bonn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 
The Organization and Retrieval of Economic Knowledge, reviewed by Edwin T . 

Coman, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 
Blake, Robert R., and Mouton, Jane Srygley. The New Managerial Grid, reviewed by 

Sheila Creth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 
Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 
Other Publications of Interest to Academic Librarians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 

BOOK REVIEWS 

Design for Diversity: Library Services for 
Higher Education and Research in Au-
stralia. Edited by Harrison Bryan and 
Gordon Greenwood. Queensland : Univ. 
of Queensland Pr., 1977. 790p. $39.95. 
ISBN 0-7022-1314-4. (Available from 
Technical Impex Corp., 5 South Union 
St., Lawrence, MA 01843.) 
The editors in their prefatorial remarks 

admit the many problems inherent in set-
ting out to write a "state of the art" report 
on the academic and research libraries of a 
continent. Simply the assembling and guid-
ing of the many cooperating authors would 
be a gargantuan enough task. To weld to-
gether their diverse offerings into a book 
that avoids unnecessary repetition, that 

avoids being descriptive only of a crystal-
lized instant of time, and that makes a con-
siderable contribution to knowledge speaks 
well of the patience and the persistence of 
the editors. 

There is no way of overcoming the lapse 
of time between inception and publication 
of such a book. The prefaces were written 
in May 1975. Most of the chapters, based 
on internal evidence, were written between 
1973 and 1974. The latest statistics and 
other facts that can be cited date from 1973 
or earlier. Clearly then the facts of the book 
are now historical, rather than contempor-
ary, but it is a measure of its success that 
one is prepared to accept this, asking only 
occasionally what happened next, for its 
greatest importance lies not in the statistics, 
not in the descriptions of buildings and col-
lections, but in the presentation of concepts 

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316 I College & Research Libraries • july 1978 

and ideas whose value extends beyond the 
time and the place of their writing. 

This volume was conceived to be a survey 
of Australia by Australians, a sort of 
coming-of-age ceremony for Australian li-
brarianship. As such it is fitting that it 
should set out the history of their libraries, 
calmly and without flattery. It is proper also 
that it should display informed dissent such 
as is natural within a group of adult profes-
sionals. Differences of opinion are not 
glossed over, nor are the many severe fail-
ures of past and present neglected. 

Perhaps in five years' time an article or 
two should be commissioned to see where 
the brave planners of the early seventies 
have got to. Besides, there are a few histor-
ical episodes that obviously require clarifica-
tion. Despite the frequent references 
elsewhere to its beneficial effects, D. H. 
Borchardt clearly states (p.155) that the 
Tauber report was emasculated by those 
who resented its implications. Perhaps the 
resolution of the fact is less important than 
that the statement should appear in this 
compendium, evidence that it seeks a true 
portrait, warts and all. 

There are multitudes of facts, historical 
and statistical, there is an excellent survey 
of recent buildings by Harrison Bryan, but 
beyond this there are discussions of librar-
ianship that transcend the Australian scene. 
Anyone interested in bibliographic instruc-
tion will find much wisdom and good advice 
in the chapters by S. B. Page and J. A. 
Levett. · Jean Whyte's discussion of reader 
services shows much sound, good sense. 
The chapter on automation by Mary Jacob, 
though it is restricted by the very contem-
porary nature of automation in Australia, 
poses questions we all must consider, while 
out of an entirely different tradition of li-
brary education Wilma Radford arrives at 
conclusions Americans would do well to 
ponder. 

Naming these few contributors is not 
meant to imply lesser value in others where 
the thinking is equally sharp. It would, 
however, be impossible not to commend 
the magisterial summation provided by 
Gordon Greenwood where he deals with 
policy and experiment in a comparative 
manner that must remind us once again that 
some of the greatest contributions to librar-

ianship have come from nonlibrarians. 
The bibliographic apparatus of the book is 

further evidence of the meticulous care of 
the editors. The arrangement of the 
bibliography-by subject and by specific 
library-is curious but perhaps desirable 
given the nature of the book, yet it makes 
systematic consultation tedious and unre-
warding. The fifty-page index makes easy 
the finding of specific names and topics. 

Not many other readers will read steadily 
through this book from cover to cover, but 
if they are half as fascinated as I became, 
they will return to it again and again to 
ponder specific ideas and suggestions, par-
ticularly those relating to the increasing im-
portance of governments at all levels in 
their influence on library development. 

All university libraries and library schools 
should purchase this book, also state librar-
ies, since the state libraries play a particular 
and an important role in Australia, and any 
librarian who is interested in a country that 
has maintained close links with America 
since its own birth in travail nearly 200 
years ago.-Murray S. Martin , Pennsyl-
vania State University, University Park . 

Academic Libraries by the Year 2000: Es-
says Honoring Jerrold Orne. Edited by 
Herbert Poole. New York: Bowker, 1977. 
205p. $15.95. LC 77-81880. ISBN 
0-8352-0993-8. 
This is a collection of twelve essays about 

librarianship, a short biography of Jerrold 
Orne, and a bibliography of Mr. Orne's 
publications. 

Edward G. Holley has written a general 
prediction for the future of academic librar-
ies that is in fact a conservative statement. 
Using present financial and educational 
trends, this is probably as accurate a guess 
at the future as one will find. Dean Holley 
has documented his statements and has 
good reason to make most of them. The 
fault in such an approach is that it cannot 
and does not deal with the unexpected, the 
unpredictable; that factor is simply not 
there. I would have preferred some guess at 
such unpredictability. The one kind of trend 
not as well explicated nor as well 
documented as this reviewer would like to 
see is the analysis of the social and