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484 I College & Research Libraries • September 1979 

ter systems, while the second provides 
technical information to aid in decision mak-
ing. Tables and figures illustrate much of 
the descriptive material. A very useful di-
rectory of installed systems, which includes 
contact personnel and availability of 
software, supplements the extensive de-
scription and technical matter. 

The author has included a glossary of 
terms that should help make the text intel-
ligible to readers with some systems knowl-
edge, as well as to students who may use 
this book in connection with course work. 
Audrey Grosch deserves applause for her 
accomplishment.-Fay Zipkowitz, Worces-
ter Area Cooperating Libraries, Worcester, 
Massachusetts. 

Funding Alternatives for Libraries, edited 
by Patricia Senn Breivik and E. Burr 
Gibson. Chicago: American Library 
Assn., 1979. 174p. $9 paper. LC 78-
27865. ISBN 0-8389-0273-1. 
The librarian as "fund raiser"? A disquiet-

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ing thought to many, perhaps, but Breivik 
and her associates argue persuasively that 
librarians ought to give serious considera-
tion to assuming this role. 

This book is based on the premise that 
"librarians increasingly will need to avail 
themselves of all reasonably possible av-
enues of expanding their funding sources," 
and the message is directed to "those librar-
ies and librarians who are, as a means ,to 
that end, willing aggressively to explore all 
financial opportunities which assist them in 
their missions." Chapter 1, "Financial Prob-
lems and Some Solutions," lays the 
groundwork for this argument. 

Chapters 2 through 11 constitute a "how-
to-do-it" guide to fund raising for libraries, 
from planning through implementation. Be-
cause the discussion of fund raising is com-
plicated by differences in the types and 
sizes of libraries and differences in the types 
and sizes of their communities, the remain-
ing three chapters attempt to provide in-
sights into these differences. Chapter 12 
considers the library "Operating within a 
Parent Institution"; chapter 13 describes 
"Fund Raising for University Libraries"; and 
chapter 14, "Three Case Studies," consists 
of fund-raising programs carried out by 
three different kinds of libraries. Biographi-
cal sketches of the contributors and a 
selected annotated bibliography round out 
the text. 

Although this book is an outgrowth of a 
workshop held at the Pratt Institute Gradu-
ate School of Library and Information Sci-
ence in January 1976 and is composed prin-
cipally of "updated versions of most of the 
speeches given at the Pratt workshop," the 
material is fresh and vigorously presented. 
The editors are to be commended for their 
skill in blending the material from fourteen 
different contributors into a coherent, read-
able text. 

Fund raising may not be appropriate for 
every library. But the decision as to 
whether or not a library should become in-
volved ought to rest upon a careful analysis 
of its needs, its capabilities, and its potential 
source of contributions. In my opinion, this 
book is a useful introduction to the problem 
and well worth the modest price.-George 
W. Cornell, State University of New York, 
College at Brockport.