College and Research Libraries 494 I College & Research Libraries· September 1981 melange of papers by a good atelier of au- thors. A special and valuable continuing fea- ture is a register of" ... Lost or Stolen Archi- val Materials." Journal of Library Administration, also a Haworth Press product, presents a largely similar profile. Since library administration differs little from other kinds of administra- tion, this journal has an understandably heavy contingent of nonlibrarians among the authors published in this first issue. Useful abstracts precede each article. Library Research, represented here by two recent issues, sets rigor in methodology as its principal criterion for inclusion. Although that emphasis may, for the present, attract fewer practitioners to its readership than some of the theme- or function-oriented jour- nals of applied research, it seems likely to serve as part of the more valuable cumulating permanent record of library scholarship. Valuable special features are "state-of-the- research" reports and reviews of disserta- tions. Drexel Library Quarterly, of course, is not a new journal. The two recent issues noted Heritage on Microfilnt Rare and out-of-print titles and documents on 35mm silver halide microfilm. • French Books before 1601 • Scandinavian Culture • 18th Century English Literature • Victorian Fiction • Literature of Folklore • Hispanic Culture Send for catalog and title information today. ~~t}~[M ~CO'v\P?NY 70 Coolidge Hill Road Watertown, MA 02172 (617) 926-5557 here, however, constitute an examination of recent trends and the current status of the professional literature of librarianship. Dis- cussions of periodicals and newsletters, spe- cialized journals, nonprint media, mono- graph publishers, indexes and abstracts, library authors, landmark publications, pro- fessional collections, and library publishing outside the U.S. are all comprised within their pages, creating a valuable summary of library literature as it enters the 1980s. All of this frenetic scholarly activity proba- bly augurs well for librarianship. If a body of knowledge is a requisite hallmark of a mature profession, here is evidence aplenty that such a body for librarianship is taking corporeal form more rapidly now than ever before. A cautionary note, however, deserves to be sounded. It remains to be seen whether or not the field can assimilate this rapid accelera- tion in the productivity of its literature. In the last analysis someone has to write all this stuff, and someone else has to buy it. If either end of this equation surges out of balance with the other, journal publishing in librari- anship will experience a substantial shakeout of its weaker products.-David Kaser, Indi- ana University, Bloomington. Stueart, Robert D. and Eastlick, John Tay- lor. Library Management. 2d ed. Library Science Text Series. Littleton, Colo.: Li- braries Unlimited, 1981. 292p. $22.50 U.S., $27.00 elsewhere; $14.50 paper U.S., $17.50 elsewhere. LC 80-22895. ISBN 0-87287-241-6; 0-87287-243-2 pa- per. Teachers of library management will be pleased with this 292-page text. The intent of this volume is to examine the dynamics of the library as an organization-the behavior of individuals and groups within the library, the policies and programs of the library, and the relationship of the library to its staff and its clientele. The book is intended to serve the needs of practitioners as well as students. The historical development of manage- ment theory is covered very briefly and many names in the field of management are intro- duced. This brief introduction could be con- fusing to the student in beginning adminis- tration, as Robert L. Goldberg stated, "because of such compact packing of infor- mation, all of these luminaries become but L---------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Scholarly Publications in the Life Sciences from - · ) P..~~h!.:. JRi~.~ ... !,~blishers BOTANY Macrolimate and Plant Forms An Introduction to Predictive Modeling in Phytogeography by E. 0. Box, University of Georgia (Tasks for Vegetation Science, 1) ISBN 90-6193-941-0 November 272 pp. $69.50 Distribution and Ecology of Vascular Plants in a Tropical Rain Forest by f. B. Hall and M .D. Swaine (Ceo botany 1) ISBN 90-6193-681-0 September 392 pp. $112.00 ECOLOGY STUDIES The Ecology of Scotland's Largest Lochs by P. S. Maitland, Natural Environment Research Council , U.K. (Monographiae Biologicae, 44) ISBN 90-6193-097-9 September 304 pp. $67.00 Community Ecology of a Coral Cay A Study of One-Tree Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia by H. Heatwolfe, T . Done, and E. Cameron (Monographiae Biologicae, 43) ISBN 90-6193-096-0 November 400 pp. $74.00 ENTOMOLOGY Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Trichoptera edited by G. P. Moretti, Institute of Zoology, Perugia, Italy (Series Entomologica 20) ISBN 90-6193-130-4 November 471 pp. $89.00 LIMNOLOGY AND ICHTHYOLOGY Salt Lakes by W. D. Williams, University of Adelaide (Developments in Hydrobiology 5) ISBN 90-6193-756-6 August 458 pp. $95.00 Man and Fisheries of an Amazon Frontier by Michael Goulding, National Amazon Fish Institute (Developments in Hydrobiology, val. 4) ISBN 90-6193-755-8 July 140 pp. $47.50 Ecology and Ethology of Fishes edited D. L. G. Noakes and f. A. Ward (Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes, 1) ISBN 90-6193-896-1 August 144 pp. OPHTHALMOLOGY The Cornea in Measles by N. W.H.M. Dekkers (Monographs in Ophthalmology 3) ISBN 90-6193-803-1 $34.00 July 121 pp. $29.00 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Myopia, Copenhagen 1980 edited by H. C. Fledelius, P. H. Alsbirk, E. Goldschmidt (Documenta Ophthalmologica, 28) ISBN 90-6193-725-6 November 266 pp. $69.00 Visual Pathways edited by H. Spekreiise and P.A. Apkarian, Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute (Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series 27) ISBN 90-6193-723-X June 472 pp. $99.00 !'led'£ me 1\HN when urdcnn~ /)r W funk huuk' ~t. Kl B I tmm \'Ullr huuk,dlcr ur /)nnt tmm uur Nurth ... uwer oston nc. Armnum dt,tnhutHm 'enter ·~~~~~~~~~~~ I 90 Old Dcrhv St, Hmgh.1m, M.,A 020-U 496 I College & Research Libraries· September 1981 'walk-on' actors on the administrative stage." The book is divided into seven broad tradi- tional areas: management development, planning process, organizing, staffing, direc- tory' principles of control, and changes; not much new material is being introduced in these sections. The authors have maintained the basic approach used in the first edition. The space allotted to each area is too brief to accomplish the purpose of the book. For ex- ample, chapter I, "Management Develop- ment: A Historical Overview" (13 pages), provides a basic introduction or overview, but is a waste of time for students who need to learn dates, people, etc., as a requirement for management understanding. There are inac- curacies about people and their relationships to various management schools in the first edition which are still present in the second edition (i.e., May Follette, Elton Mayo, Hen- sis Lickert are included in the "human behav- ior school") . There are factual errors and awkward sentences throughout the work that Organize ...... documents, prints, clippings , magazines, photos. Highsmith 's expanded selection of Shelf- files let you save space, save time searching for loose materials. Styles and sizes to suit any need; guaranteed quality for long use. Among the thousands of items for libraries, schools, offices in the newest Highsmith catalog . Send for your own free copy. Bl8hsrnlth have not been corrected. No attempt has been made to correct chapters that are merely top- ical outlines. Contingency management is not mentioned. This reviewer feels that too much has been attempted in a limited, com- pact book. The bibliographies at the end of each chapter could serve as a sound reading list for the beginning library manager, but the bibliographies do not deal strongly with theories of management. These critical comments are not meant to imply that this title is not useful. It is of value for the beginner's level. The authors do not relate well the skills of management to the management process.-] ohn Goudeau, Flor- ida State University, Tallahassee. Managing Fiscal Stress: The Crisis in the Public Sector. Ed. by Charles H. Levine. Cha- tham, N.J.: Chatham House, 1980. 344p. $9.95. LC 79-27266. ISBN 0-934540-02-1. Essays in Public Finance and Financial Man- agement: State and Local Perspectives. Ed. by John E. Petersen and Catherine Lavigne Spain. Chatham, N.J.: Chatham House, 1980. $8.95. 176p. LC 79-24847. ISBN 0-934540-03-9. The Levine book of readings on fiscal stress analysis, explanation, and management takes as its theme the problem(s) of economic growth, direction, and management. The second title in the pairing for this review is also a reader; it limits its content to state and local financial management. Thus, from the top down (or the bottom up, even), readers can find in these two volumes a wide array of scholarly papers on a wide variety of eco- nomic movements. Levine's collection is well chosen and well balanced; its readings will give sophisticated and unsophisticated (like us), but seriously oriented persons, a broad horizon of contact with causes of fiscal stress, decision making (relative to fiscal stress), resources, produc- tivity, and cutbacks (sections of the volume). This reviewer cannot evaluate the merit of the economics concept, but he states unequiv- ocally that the solutions given are uniformly readable, topic/case oriented, and structur- ally well conceived. There is the light touch, also, which helps the reader see the point without being stuck with tedious explana- tions. This praise is less fulsome for the Peterson/