College and Research Libraries scripts in the Heinecke Rare Book an.d Manuscript Library at Yale, brings to life the materials with which she has worked, detailing not only their physical form, but also the circumstances of their origins and associations, and the questions and specula- tion to which they give rise. The Earliest Library Motto traces her search for the source of an inscription in the doorway of the St. Gall Library, a trail lead- ing back to Ramses II~ whose library portals held the same Greek inscription: "the house of healing for the soul. .. Most of the essays are associated with in- cunabula and manuscripts, chiefly medieval and Renaissance, except for the pieces de- voted to Ezra Stiles, eighteenth president of Yale. Cora Lutz' scholarship is unmistak- able, and an index and copious notes are provided for the studious. But her erudition does not stand in the way of the spell she weaves in her quest to give meaning to her materials as she uses them to illuminate life, especially the life of the intellect, throughout the ages. Many of the manuscripts pose their own questions, for example, Lentulus' letter, which purports to be an eye-witness de- scription of Christ, or a forged manuscript in boustrophedon, the early Greek form of writing that proceeded continuously back and forth across the page. Other topics lead back to the manuscript sources, the origin of the Y of Pythagoras, whose two arms symbolize the choice between the way of virtue and the way of evil, or again, an ear- ly Roman proverb, popular in sixteenth- century England, which eludes tracing to its use by Mary, Queen of Scots. The essays· are grouped into sections on medieval metaphor and symbol; the unex- pected in manuscripts; renaissance learning; unusual animals in books; and rare books from the Stiles Library. The section of three essays on Stiles is a somewhat incongruous inclusion, but makes for interesting reading, nevertheless. As the Heinecke books and manuscripts were the inspiration for a majority of the essays, so most of the six- teen illustrations are taken from that collec- tion. Well chosen and reproduced, they whet the appetite for a view of the origi- nals. This is, unfortunately, the kind of book Recent Publications I 363 too often overlooked by the many who would find it fascinating. Classical philolo- gists will already be familiar with earlier scholarly works by Cora Lutz. For the general reader these essays can be an excit- ing excursion into unfamiliar territory with a knowledgeable and articulate guide. Histo- rian, classicist, bibliophile, and student will be indebted to the librarian who calls them to their attention.-Gertrude Reed, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. "Knowledge, How It Gets Around, What Happens to It in the Process," a special issue edited by Andree Conrad, Book Forum 5, no.1 (1979). 176p. $3. Available from: Hudson River Press, Box 126, Rhinecliff, NY 12574. This special issue of Book Forum, plan- ned around the National Enquiry into Scholary Communication, is a useful way for librarians to learn what some members of the community of academic presses think of the report. From the early paragraphs of Andree Conrad's introduction, "Information Fever," one can see that the state of scholarly com- munication is about to meet unfriendly, not to say hostile, witnesses. Today's scholars, Conrad says, lack the audacity demanded for interpretation of their data. Rather, they stick to peripheral fact-finding papers that are less likely to be challenged and which establish the authors' claim on their data. The National Enquiry, she continues, sees no harm in the develop- ment and, in fact, shows how the packaging and transmission of discrete units can be done electronically with great speed and even greater expense. But the intended re- cipients are other scholars and the 99.6 per- cent of the population outside ·the academic community who also want to know will learn, not from the scholars, but from the popularizers, whose ability· to piece together snippets of information with scanty inter- pretation will be enhanced by the transmis- sion marvels projected by the Enquiry. Thus the fever, today' s infatuation with fact, increases in virulence with the distance between knowledge generator and know- ledge consumer. Critiques of the report by three univer- sity press editors continue the attack. Ber- 364 I College & Research Libraries • July 1980 nard Goldman (Wayne State University) be- lieves it is reductionist as well as destruc- tive to dwell on scholarly communication· as a delivery system. Scholarly communication is not a collegiate luxury, but the basic and ultimately only important business of the university. The Enquiry should have con- centrated on putting the academic press into the mainstream of education instead of a recital of devices and techniques that may save dollars here and there. The report failed to deal with the crucial question of quality publishing, David Bartlett (Temple University) adds. August Fruge (University of California, emeritus) approves of a national bibliographical network but calls the national periodical center an outmoded, precomputer agency, an unnecessary layer of administration. But the harshest words come from Marilyn Gaul (president, Conference of Editors of Learned Journals): biased, unen- lightened, lopsided, wrong-headed, arro- gant, shortsighted, and extravagant. The Enquiry failed to understand the differences 0 TIMELY DELIVERY On Your Book Orders CE-0-0-Cl SEPTEMBER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 the BBOK B USE SINCE 1962 SERVING INSTITUTIONAL LIBRARIES WITH ANY BOOK IN PRINT between science journals and the humani- ties, the knowledge they are communicat- ing, the way scholars use resources, the way each community is organized. There are other interesting pieces: an in- terview with Chester Kerr; an account of the early University of South Carolina Press; a whimsical tale of a malpractice suit brought by an author against a university press; excerpts from The World of Aldus M anutius by Martin Lowry and Robert L. Oakman's Computer Methods for Literary Research; reviews of four books; and some other short articles-but they lack the zing of the earlier parts. Is this issue simply a qeo-Luddite attack, a longing for more money to continue con- ventional methods? There is resentment of the sums of public money suggested by the Enquiry and some serious lack of under- standing of the role and plight of the re- search library. Fruge's remarkable state- ment that the management and finances of libraries have not received critical study is an example. But what I hear is a cry of out- College and University Acquisition Librarians ..... Now is the time to try the best source for: • any book in print • accurate invoicing • meaningful reports • rush order service • competitive discounts • plus many other services Call 517-849-2117 Collect 208 WEST CHICAGO STREET JONESVILLE, MICHIGAN 49250 rage that humanistic study is being laced into the straitjacket of technology and is going down the tube. Perhaps we should listen.-]oe W. Kraus, IUinois State Univer- sity' N Orrnlll. Davis, Charles H., and Rush, James E. Guide to Information Science. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pr., 1979. 305p. $25. LC 78-75240. ISBN 0-313-20982-0. This conservatively Bound black book, accented with gold spine lettering contains an exciting clear presentation of certain fun- damental ~ncepts in information science. The first six chapters are revised and ex- panded versions of chapters in these au- thors' earlier book Information Retrieval and Documentation in Chemistry. Some of the statistics have been toned down to appeal to those in nonscientific disciplines. However, this book cannot be construed as a first text in the topics it treats-unless it is supplemented with appropriate readings, many of which are cited in the bibliog- raphies following each chapter. New chapters are included on the"His- tory and Fundamentals of Computing" and "Data Structures and File Organization." This latter chapter is the longest of all the chapters, giving good treatment at the in- termediate level or for the advanced begin- ner in a graduate information science pro- gram. Those possessing Davis and Rush's earlier book will want to add this one to their li- brary. The "History" chapter is interesting but does not really add significantly to the main content and purpose of this book in the sense of infDrmation science principles. But, nonetheless, the chapter is valuable as a concise history; however, hardly what the graduate student in the history of science or computing would find informative. Most im- portant, perhaps for women in information science, is the just recognition the authors give to Lady Lovelace, "Ada," who was Charles Babbage's collaborator and support- er and for whom one of the latest program- ming languages (ADA) is named. The last chapter would be a particularly useful text chapter for a .beginning course in information science, where students need to have exposure to basic data structures, file organization, and principles of computer Recent Publications I 365 programming. In fact, no clearer exposition is present in the literature, in this review- er's opinion, of some of the principles and their examples. Queues, stacks, strings, tables, and trees should all become clearer to the reader here than in many other treat- ments this reviewer has seen. The quality of writing is excellent. Also the production quality is high, certainly worth the asking price, with only one typographical error on page 111. A minor misstatement occurs on the top of page 163 as power consumption of second generation computers rather decreased from the first generation due to the solid-state devices used. This reviewer recommends this book for use in the teaching of information science fundamentals courses, for survey courses in library science, and for addition to any li- brary supporting such curriculum offerings. Moreover, it should be a welcome addition to the private practitioner's library, and in- deed a very good candidate for a "Best Book" award.-Audrey N. Grosch, Uni- versity of Minnesota, St. Paul. Brown, Eleanor Frances. Cutting Library Coats: lncreaaing Productivity and Rail- ing Revenuea. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1979. 264p. $12.50. LC 79- 19448. ISBN 0-8108-1250-9. Living and working as we do in a period of increasing inflation, our budgets are con- tinually being eroded. These are indeed trying times as we strive to provide the ser- vices we feel are necessary with dollars that purchase less and less. This is especially true for those many libraries that are under- staffed, overworked, and underfunded. The timely appearance of Eleanor Frances Brown's Cutting Library Costs may very well prove useful by giving some helpful suggestions and by stimulating our own ideas and starting points. The book is a listing of one suggestion after another, covering the whole spectrum of the public library's activities. Many are extremely basic, commonsensical kinds of ideas. I am sure that there are a number of people who would take umbrage at some of these very simple suggestions; however, I tend to feel, like the author, that there are many librarians who would welcome and