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California Conservation Center." 

A CLASS Colloquium on Conservation 
held in December 1977 discussed topics 
such as conservation education, a clearing-
house for supplies and information, and 
cooperative preservation through the United 
States Newspaper Project and microfilming 
of books. The twenty-three participants also 
recognized that conservation activities 
would include lobbying the legislature and 
identifying other funding sources. Their 
total plan of action for a California Docu-
ment Conservation Program is outlined, in a 
series of steps that could serve as a model 
for any region. 

This report emphasizes the necessity of a 
regional document conservation facility for 
California. Potentially, the regional center 
would carry out many facets of the docu-
ment conservation program. It would pro-
vide preservation information and disaster 
assistance and carry out conservation and 
restoration procedures. There are recom-
mendations for quantitative and qualitative 
surveys of California library collections that 
would determine the specific nature of the 
regional center. 

Overall, this is a valuable resource for re-
gions that hope to have the type of conser-
vation program pioneered by the New En-
gland Document Conservation Center.-
Catherine Asher, Indiana University, 
Bloomington. 

Making Cooperation Work. LJ Special Re-
port #9. New York: Bowker, 1979. 56p. 
$5; cash with order, $3.95. ISBN 0-8352-
1191-6. ISSN 0362-448X. 
Edited by Karl Nyren, this Library jour-

nal offspring contains fourteen brief articles 
on cooperation within local areas and re-
sembles its parent in format and style. Con-
tributed by fifteen librarians and two public 
relations specialists, these previously unpub-
lished writings range from essays of the 
"How I Run My Library Good" variety to a 
summarized doctoral dissertation complete 
with footnotes. Of special interest to 
academic librarians are the following items: 
( 1) "A Total Responsibility for Service," 
Joseph Boisse's essay ~m library outreach ac-
tivities at the University of Wisconsin-
Parkside; (2) .. The Forgotten Stepchildren: 
Branch Campus Libraries," a study by Ed-

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ward Jennerich; (3) "SLIC in the Sierra 
N evadas," Maureen Trimm's description of 
an interstate cooperative of academic, pub-
lic, and special libraries; (4) .. Coordinating 
Collections in the Milwaukee Area" by 
Robert Haertle of Marquette University; (5) 
"A Sub-Network for Western Illinois," 
Ronald Rayman's discussion of a local inter-
library loan system that is part of a mul-
titype, statewide network; (6) "ILL Can Be 
Cost-Effective Today," by R. Dean Gallo-
way of California State College, Stanislaus; 
and (7) "WEBNET, a Full-Service Net-
work," a progress report on an experiment 
in resource sharing among academic librar-
ies in western Pennsylvania. 

This publication is not for those librarians 
seeking information about collaborative ef-
forts at the statewide, national, and interna-
tional levels. Nor does it provide material 
on the joint use of facilities by academic and 
public libraries. Similarly, although it con- . 
tains three articles on alliances between 
school and public libraries, this work does 
not include any descriptions of programs 
linking school libraries to academic, public, 
and special libraries, such as the pilot proj-
ects currently being undertaken in New 
York. Nevertheless, this attractive, read-
able, and informative paperback clearly 
demonstrates that libraries of all types ahd 
sizes are cooperating at the grass roots 
level. -Leonard Grundt , Nassau C ommu-
nity College , Garden City , New York. 

Hunter, Eric J. AACR 2: An Introduction to 
the Second Edition of Anglo-American 
Cataloguing Rules. London: Clive 
Bingley; Hamden, Conn.: Linnet Books, 
1979. 148p. $12.50. LC 78-23933. ISBN 
0-208-01684-8 Linnet; 0-85157-282-0 
Bingley. 
Eric Hunter, who served on the Library 

Association-British Library Committee on 
Revision of AACR, guides (and sometimes 
chides) both practitioner and student 
through the principles underlying AACR 2. 
Lessons and problems are divided into 
frames. Beginning with an excellent flow-
chart and continuing through frame 216, 
this workmanlike programmed text permits 
the reader to proceed independently at his 
or her own pace. 

Only forty-seven of the frames are de-