College and Research Libraries 170 I College & Research Libraries • March 1980 formulation of policies, provide an excellent combination of theory and specifics and are a base that individual libraries can use to es- tablish procedures to help meet their indi- vidual needs. At only five dollars, this book is one of the best buys in library publishing.-William Schenck , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Collection Management. LJ Special Report #ll. New York: Bowker, 1979. 48p. $5; cash with order, $3.95. ISBN 0-8352- 1215-7. ISSN 0362-448X. This group of thirteen articles provides collection management ideas in a readable reportorial and inspirational style. Editor Karl Nyren has divided the LJ-size pam- phlet into three topics: buying on a budget; the new special collection; and periodicals, needs/costs/uses. The articles range from being quite spe- cific in suggesting management respon: sibilities and methods to being rather philosophical in supporting the need for re- sponsible collection management. To buy on a budget, libraries are encour- aged to use remainder houses, committees, computer data bases, rigorous use studies, and the process of developing a "collection development" policy as means for control- ling expenditures. Even in times of retrenchment a library keeps growing, changing, developing its programs. One means of doing so is to start a special collection. Nyren print~d five es- says that suggest the birthing process of, and then the maintenance methodology for, special collections. This section is especially reportorial/inspirational in nature, yet with bibliographic information amply presented. The third section contains two essays about the need for, and methodology of, adequately managing the library's serials material. This section returns the reader to the need for more rigorous study of use, cost, and need for each subscription. Though the price seems steep for a forty-eight-page production, the essays do provide ideas for the collection manager of any size or type of library. One weakness is You Need Only One. When selecting an acquisitions agent or changing from your current agent, what are your needs and who should you be looking for? Does your library need ... ? 0 1. Fiscal management programs specially designed to aid library budgets. 0 2. Complete U.S. and European sales/service staffs and falfillment centeD. 0 3. Periodicals, continaatiou, and monographs. 0 4. Frequent bibliC)grapbic and service publications. 0 5. Coordhlatecl programs for conversion from •ciireet ordering" or other agents. 0 6. Worldwide resources. If these are your needs, then Stechert Mac:millan, Inc. is your one II01U'Ce- one service ac:quisitiou agency! With over 100 years of acquisitions experience, Stechert's tradition of excellence (started way back in 1872 by Stechert-Hafner) offers you a total, compre- hensive service, whether your library is large or small; academic, public or special. Coupling these six Stechert Macmillan services with our management information systems- Holdings Renewal List, Quarterly Claims Report, Union List of Holdings, Consolidated Invoice by Department (CID)- for periodicals; standing order program for continuations; publisher relations program; and the PONT A (Popular New Titles From Abroad) plan- it's easy to see why, when you select Stechert Macmillan, •You Need Only One." Why not write today for information about the complete line of Stechert Macmillan services! Stechert ~ Macmillan,lnc. W Serving Libraries Since 1872 866 Third Avenue/New York, N.Y. 10022 USA the lack of explicit commentary on the weeding process. Weeding is implied in most of the essays, yet seems still to be only an assumed process. Withal, the format provides handy idea generators for collec- tion managers.-]ames E. · Weaver, What- com County Public Library, Bellingham, Washington. 2nd International Onli~ Information Meet- ing, London, 5-7 December 1978. Or- ganized by Online Review, the Interna- tional Journal of Online and Teletext In- formation Systems. Oxford, New York: Learned Information, 1979. 286p. $35. ISBN 0-904933-15-6. (Available from: K. G. Saur Publishing Inc., 175 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010.) This volume contains thirty papers pre- sented at the second international meeting on this topic organized by the journal On- line Review, which is noted for its well- refereed articles in the field. However, in reviewing this volume this reviewer finds both good news and bad news for the pro- spective purchaser. First, the good news. The papers are consecutively numbered and further keyed by a letter prefix to ap- parently form ten broad subject groupings, although no headings really define these di- visions in the table of contents. Group A leads off with an excellent paper by Neal Gregory called "The U.S. Con~ress-On-Line Users as Policy Mak- ers,' which is followed by a paper dealing with language uses and ambiguities in re- trieval systems that is cleverly written but unfortunately tells the reader nothing really new. Group B deals with user education with several well-known authors describing their experiences in training users in very credit- able fashion. Group C contains one of the more crea- tive and interesting papers by D. D. Singer and others, titled "The Role of a Minicom- puter in an Information Department to Pro- vide Online In-House Services." Group D offers three papers dealing with information costs, international data trans- mission tariffs, and pricing of on-line ser- vices by means other than the connect time and royalty basis. Group E contains one paper on the mar- Recent Publications I 171 keting strategies used in Spain for their "Red INCA" information retrieval system, which interestingly employs remotely con- nected television monitors to connect users with searchers at the various "Re