College and Research Libraries sion." A student introduction carefully de- lineates its commitment to continuing education. A faculty introduction justifies the use of a preselected and, to some de- gree predigested, set of readings while giv- ing the geographical and chronological pa- rameters of its coverage. The work of selec- tion was partially supported by a grant from the Hollowell Research Fund of the Sim- mons College School of Library Science. Seven specific "issues" are addressed. Each is covered in three to eight extracts from previously published writings, and prefaced by a half-dozen or so paragraphs of editorial comment. Only one paper was written originally for this volume. Issue I, the United States library environ- ment, is explored in terms of the excite- ment and rewards of historical research, and the problems of defining the intellectual basis of professional expertise. The readings for Issue II, government re- lations, examine past trends toward various levels of government funding for various types of libraries, together with a strong plea for an integrated national library plan. The Issue III, management goals and · standards, readings are selected to show the values, uses, and pitfalls of formal state- mentS\.of standards and plans. The ACRL Standards for College Libraries are in- cluded in toto as a kind of paradigm for dis- cussion and criticism. Selections for Issue IV, creative library service, probe the sources of, and reactions to, recent experiments in people-oriented library programs. Those for Issue V, human resources, ask, and try to answer, questions concerning the librarian's public visibility vis-a-vis his or her self-image. Issue VI, philosophical questions, grap- ples with problems of professional and social responsibility, intellectual freedom, and the content of library education. The final Issue VII, changing boundaries of librarianship, ranges from Vannevar Bush's rather technical World War II pre- dictions of the future course of information retrieval to Karl Nyren's mid-1970s iden- tification of libraries as "low energy proces- ses" to which "society will never devote more than a minor fraction of its resources." Nyren suggests that public ' libraries, which Recent Publications I 361 spend high budget percentages on person- nel and upkeep, may come eventually to follow the academic and research library emphasis on collecting informational mate- rials. While his forecasts are sober, they are by no means despairing. This anthology is supplemented by a list of acknowledgments to the original publica- tion sources, with biographical notes on contributors included. There is no index. A two-page annotated list of books, and another of serials, for further reading com- pletes the contents. While the articles un- deniably contain some discussions directed specifically to the academic milieu, their overall focus lies on the public library, for which the problems of justification and so- cial role are unavoidably more acute, being less structured by the nature and immediate needs of the community served.-]eanne Osbo_rn, University of Iowa, Iowa City. Ehresmann, Donald L. Fine Arts: A Bib- liographic Guide to Basic Works, Histor- ies, and Handbooks. 2d ed. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1979. 349p. · The Economics of 0 nline Bibliographic Searching: Costs and Cost Justifications by William Saffady Describes the services currently available and what it takes in terms of equipment, personnel, and training for a library search service to become operational. Saffady's unique contribution is an economic analysis of the various options, including cost comparisons between manual and machine-assisted searching. In Library Technology Reports September/October 1979 issue Volume 15 Number 5 Single issue price $40.00 Library Technology Reports American Library Association 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611 362 I College & Research Libraries •] uly 1980 $19.50 U.S.& Canada, $23 elsewhere. LC 79-9051. ISBN 0-87287-201-7. In the preface to this revised edition, Donald Ehresmann (professor of art at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle) states that the growth in fine arts has necessitated an update of his 1975 bibliography. Several changes have been made in terms of scope and arrangement, and the revised edition has some overlap with Chamberlin's Guide to Art Reference Books (Chicago: American Library Assn., 1959), the acknowledged bible of art bibliography previous to Ehres- mann' s 1975 effort. Expansion includes not only pre-1958 ti- tles, but also 147 books published since 1973 (the cutoff date for the previous edi- tion); the total entries for the present volume is over 1,670. The prolific trend in art publications is visible through the addition of several new sections; in chapter one, a new section is concerned with research and library manu- als. So vital an area would seemingly de- serve more attention. Longer and more de- tailed annotations would have been an asset. The author could have supplied valu- able insights on the use of these reference works as supplements to his own, especially since none of the five books was discussed in the previous edition. The two most re- cent of these works are of particular in- terest, Methods and Resources: A Guide to Finding Art Information by Lois Swan Jones (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt, 1978) and Gerd Muehsam's Guide to Basic In- formation in the Visual Arts (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1978). Although both of these volumes list sources, their main func- tion is to instruct the reader in the metho- dology of art research. They, along with Chamberlin, should be used in conjunction with Fine Arts to meet the growing and varied needs of the art researcher. The day of the comprehensive art bibliographical volume is extinct! The basic format of the book has not been changed; the two parts, (1) reference works and (2) histories and handbooks of world art history, remain the same as do the twelve chapters. Chaper two on library catalogs has been expanded through the addition of post-1973 publications. Expansion is also evident in chapter ten, Oriental art, which reflects the growing interest in the field of Islamic art and the inclusion of several countries new to the bibliography. Criticisms of the 1975 publication have been duly noted and rectified: the author has improved his annotations in an attempt · to provide descriptive as well as critical comments, when necessary, and has careful- ly mentioned glossaries, chronologies, good illustrations, and bibliographies; he has ex- panded the index to include entries for au- thor, editor, main entry titles, series titles, and subjects; there are see also references. The author has, however, deleted an ele- ment applauded by reviewers of the first edition (ARBA 1976, p.435, and Booklist 72:995 [March 1, 1976]), the "Selected List of Fine Arts Books for Small Libraries," by Julia Ehresmann. With the initital publication of Fine Arts, the author specified that two supplementary volumes would follow; one on minor and decorative arts (Applied and Decorative Arts: A Bibliographic Guide to Basic Refer- ence Works, Histories, and Handbooks [Lit- tleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1977]) and the second dealing with painting and sculpture. A reviewer criticized the author's lack of depth in the area of architec- ture (ARLIS/NA Newsletter Summer 1975 p. s4-s5). Ehresmann was listening and announced in his 1979 publication that three volumes would complement Fine Arts-the two mentioned above and a third on architecture. Donald Ehresmann is to be congratulated for attempting so difficult a task and for re- vising a worthwhile reference tool. -Lamia Doumato, University of Colorado, Boulder. Lutz, Cora E. The Oldest Library Motto, and Other Library Essays. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1979. 176p. $15. LC 79-16757. ISBN 0-208-01816-6. Cora Lutz has previously demonstrated her beguiling way with history in Essays on Manuscripts and Rare Books (1975), and Schoolmasters of the lOth Century (1977). Gathered here are sixteen more pieces, in the manner of the 1975 collection, the title essay previously published in The Library Quarterly and some others in the Yale Uni- versity Library Gazette. Cora Lutz, as cataloger of pre-1600 manu-