College and Research Libraries that librarians need to have always avail- able. A revised edition of this work, care- fully edited and corrected, would be the once-and-for-all book to have. In the mean- time, this one will do nicely.-]udy H. Fair, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California. Reference and Information Services: A Reader. Edited by Bill Katz and Andrea Tarr. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1978. 456p. $12.50. LC 77-20698. ISBN 0-8108-1091-3. The indefatigable and multitalented Katz has joined library school student Tarr to edit a well-balanced and far-ranging collec- tion of articles on reference librarianship. In selecting articles for inclusion in this anthology, the editors place heavy emphasis on material published after 1973. So you will find only one or two historical pieces and none at all from such "old masters" as Ralph Shaw or Louis Shores. Katz and Tarr have also made a conscious effort to limit reprints from four basic journals of librarianship-American Libraries, Library Journal, RQ, and Wilson Library Bulletin. This gave them the opportunity to select for publication many articles from "less accessi- ble" periodicals. There are two articles from C&RL, including Robert S. Taylor's seminal contribution, "Question-Negotiation and In- formation Seeking in Libraries" (May 1968). Several of the selections are ·by British and Canadian librarians and bibliophiles. To be judged a success, an anthology such as this must achieve a fine balance be- tween selections that depict the current state of the art of reference librarianship, those that take a look into the future of computer-assisted services, those that dis- cuss theory, and those of a bibliographic na- ture. Katz and Tarr succeed admirably in this regard. Their work also manages to achieve a balance in tone, as the several serious theoretical selections are matched by some direct and straightforward chapters (such as Art Plotnik's lively and informative view of "OCLC for You and Me: A Humanized Anatomy for Beginners"). The editors have added other good change-of- pace pieces in David Draheim's humourous look at referencemanship ("I Never See Him Come Into the Library Much Any- Recent Publications I 499 more") and in two contributions by Nat Hentoff from The Village Voice. And it's re- freshing to see an intelligent and perceptive layman's views present in this kind of reader. In sum, this is a volume that will interest and inform academic librarians wishing to assess the current status and future direc- tion of reference service. For library school students it nicely complements Katz's In- troduction to Reference Work (McGraw- Hill, 3d ed., 1978).-Marshall E. Nunn, Glendale Community College, Glendale, California. The Many Faces of Information Science. Edited by Edward C. Weiss. AAAS Selected Symposia Series, 3. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1977. 128p. $12.50. LC 77-12103. ISBN 0-89158- 430-7. As librarians, we profess that the collec- tion, control, and dissemination of informa- tion is our domain. The nature of information-what it is supposed to do, how it is transferred (the "phenomenon of communication")-we generally consider the province of information scientists. The definition of information science given in the introduction to this book is "that set of principles and prescriptive rules dealing with the organization, maintenance and management of bodies of scientific, techni- cal and business information used in deci- sion making" (p.2). We should, as librarians, take a closer look at information science in the light of that definition and become aware of the work being done on the information transfer process and problems, or we may forfeit control of our information systems and pos- sibly of the suppying of information al- together. Information scientists are grappling with problems in our domain: with the change from resource as physical record to resource as knowledge and with information systems that permit interaction between people and stored knowledge rather than between people and stored document descriptions. At the very basic, theoretical end of the spectrum of information science, which this volume represents, however, most of us concerned with traditional information 500 I College & Research Libraries • November 1978 gathering and supply are likely to get very confused. The Many Faces of Information Science is a collection of five papers reflecting re- search being conducted in information transfer theory, analysis, semiotics, and lan- guage structures. It might have been more truthfully named Some of the Faces of In- formation Science, but that doesn't roll well off the tongue. On the frontiers of library-related infor- mation science is William Coffman, here represented by a paper entitled "On the Dynamics of Communication." Of perhaps most interest to librarians is the Hillman ar- ticle on knowledge transfer systems, espe- cially the LEADERMART system at Lehigh University , which encompasses interactive bibliographic information retrieval , on-line library cataloging information, and other li- brary automation programs. The other pa- pers are entitled "Development of a Theory of Information Flow and Analysis," " Infor- mation Structures in the Language of Sci- ence," and "The Portent of Signs and Sym- bols. " Some of the "faces of information science" will confuse and bewilder the earnest librar- ian newly come to information science or . trying to keep up with developments in library-related automation. The book will be of interest to those with a thorough back- ground in information science equipped to understand these attempts at establishing a theoretical foundation for what has hitherto been a technology, the mechanical transfer of knowledge.-Fay Zipkowitz , Worcester Area Cooperating Libraries , Worcester , Massachusetts. Expanding Media. Edited by Deirdre Boyle. A N eal-Sch uman Professional Book. Phoenix, Ariz . : Oryx Press. 1977. 343p . $12 .50. LC 77-23335. ISBN 0-912700-03-3. This collection of forty-five articles relat- ing to nonprint media in libraries is or- ganized into eight major sections that range broadly but include the traditional areas of concern such as selection, production, evaluation , cataloging, etc . The authdr is well known by " media specialists" for her popular column "Media Minded, " which ~ppeared regularly in American Libraries from May 1976 to June 1978. (She was re- cently named assistant editor of Wilson Li- brary Bulletin and will no longer be editing the column, now called "Mediatmosphere. "~ The articles have been combed from a wide variety of periodicals, but the selections were limited to those published since 1969 in an effort to provide comparatively current information. According to the author the book is di- rected toward all types. of libraries, library educators, librarians, and media specialists and is "designed to answer some of the philosophical and practical questions raised by media." The book only partially succeeds in its at- tempt to address the diverse group for which it is intended. While a number of ar- ticles may be of passing interest to librar- ians, particularly academic librarians, there are many that simply do not apply to their immediate needs. There are a number of "how-we-do-it-good-here" articles that are quite narrow in focus and limited in applica- tion and new information. Their omission from this compilation would not be notice- able. For example, the article by Sanford Berman, " Rules for Cataloging Audio-Visual Materials at Hennepin County Library ," is one that is so technical in nature that its interest to anyone other than a nonprint media cataloger is remote. There is also a thread of defensiveness that pervades some of the articles. The one written by James Ramey is so negative in its tone and belittling of teaching faculty as well as librarians that one or two significant and meaningful points he brings out are lost in his mass of pejorative statements. The defensive tone struck by Ramey is echoed in other articles as well. Such comments do a disservice to the many positive programs that are in operation. However, there are a few good articles. One that must be noted as truly outstanding is Lester Asheim' s " Introduction to ' Dif- ferentiating the Media,' " in which he pro- vides an excellent statement on the effec- tiveness and place of various types of media. Other articles, particularly those appearing in the introductory section. "Why Media?" and the sections on " Education" and "Media . Politics," are generally well done and will