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576 I College & Research Libraries • November 1979 

tions in the second part , only Sandra 
Parker's " Conceptual Framework for the 
Performance Measurement of a Canadian 
Federal Government Health Science Li -
brary Network" is equal to the quality of 
the presentations of the institute staff in 
Part I. Parker's contribution is a highly per-
ceptive piece that deserves to be widely 
read. There is also an excellent topical bib-
liography of recent publications using statis-
tical approach es to research in librarianship. 

This volume is a useful if not an essential 
contribution to the literature and should be 
of interest to planners of institutes as well as 
to librarians interested in applying quantita-
tive methods in their libraries.-Joe H ewitt , 
University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill. 

Kirk , Thomas , comp. Course-Related Li-
brary and Literature-Use Instruction: 
Working Models for Programs in Under-
graduate Science Education. A Mi-
cropapers Edition. New York: Jeffrey 
Norton , 1979 . 31p. + 11 microfiche. 
$14.95. LC 69-64352 . ISBN 0-88432-
013-8. 
In 1976 Earlham College designed a se-

ries of workshops, funded by a grant from 
the National Science Foundation , to de-
velop well-planned programs in science 
literature-use instruction. Twelve colleges, 
of varying size and type , sent representa-
tives to study the techniques used at Earl-
ham and adapt the highly successful Earl-
ham program to their own institutions. Like 
Earlham , these colleges based their pro-
grams on the principle that library instruc-
tion closely integrated into the science cur-
riculum and team taught by librarians and 
science faculty produces the best results_. 
One of the objectives of the project was to 
publicize the resulting programs so that 
they might serve as models for other col-
leges offering library instruction in the sci-
ences. This book fulfills that objective. 

For each college, a description of the in-
stitution and the science course provides 
the context for the instructional materials, 
sample assignments , and outline of the li-
brary instruction program. Perhaps most 
useful is the preproject and postproject dis-
cussion that has been included for many of 
the institutions. Although these transcripts 
of the discussions that occurred during the 

workshops are often confusing and speakers 
are poorly identified, much can be learned 
from them. They increase the usefulness of 
the programs as models, since they describe 
problems that occurred and possible 
changes to improve the programs. 

The bulk of the information in this book, 
the program descriptions, is included on 
eleven microfiche stored in an envelope in 
the back of the book. Aside from the prob-
lem of keeping the microfiche in the en-
velope (they slide out easily when the book 
is tipped) , this format seems to require a 
great deal more editing than was done for 
this book. Although a list of what is in-
cluded precedes each program description , 
a heading identifying each page would 
eliminate the need to return to the begin-
ning to see what a document is. It is often 
difficult to tell if the item being read was a 
handout for the students, an outline of what 
was covered in a lecture, or a part of the 
preparation at the Earlham workshop. 

An analytical index provides access to the 
project descriptions . Despite problems such 
as blind cross-references and . questionable 
choices for some subject headings (bibliog-
raphies on biology are listed under "library 
produced bibliographies , biology" with no 
cross reference under "biology"), this index 
can be very useful. The projects are indexed 
by size of institution , class size, student 
level, as well as various aspects of instruc-
tion. 

The book has a wealth of ideas, practical 
details , and advice about library instruction 
in the sciences. Better editing would have 
made it less frustrating to use.-]anet L. 
Ashley, State University of New York , Col-
lege at Oneonta. 

Whitby, Thomas J., and Lorkovic, Tanja. 
Introduction to Soviet National Bibli-
ography. Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Un-
limited , 1979. 229p. $25 U . S. and 
Canada; $30 elsewhere. LC 79-4112. 
ISBN 0-87287-128-2 . 
The title of this work is somewhat mis-

leading for it fails to indicate that two-thirds 
of its contents is represented by a transla-
tion by Tanja Lorkovic of the second edition 
of lia Borisovna Gracheva and V. N. 
Frantskevich' s Gosudarstvennaia bibliog~