College and Research Libraries Recent Publications COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES Miller, J. Gormly. Collection Development and Managem ent at Cornell: A Concluding Report on Activities of the Cornell University Libraries' Project for Collection Develop- ment and Management , July 1979-]une 1980, with Proposals for Future Planning, re- viewed by Frederick C. Lynden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487 Carpenter, Michael. Corporate Authorship: Its Role in Library Cataloging , reviewed by Ake I . Koel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490 Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492 Other Publications of Interest to Academic Librarians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 BOOK REVIEWS Miller, J. Gormly. Collection Development and Management at Cornell: A Concluding Report on Activities of the Cornell Univer- sity Libraries' Project for Collection Devel- opment and Management, July 1979-]une 1980, with Proposals for Future Planning. Prepared under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Libraries, 1981. 132p. Collection Development and Manage- ment at Cornell is the final report on a Cor- nell project created to deal with the "rapid and unplanned growth of library collec- tions" at a large research library. Assisted by a Mellon Foundation grant , Hendrik Edelman, then assistant director of libraries for collection development at Cornell, headed the project from July 1977 to January 1979 until he moved to Rutgers as university librarian. His interim report , Collection De- velopment and Management at Cornell: An Interim Report (1979), covering the project from July 1977 through June 1979, was the first of two reports . This review covers the second part, which describes project activi- ties for the last year of the project and in- cludes recommendations for the future of collection development at Cornell University Libraries. Although the author focuses on Cornell issues, the report recommendations have general applicability at other university libraries and offer planning approaches that can be used by collection managers at any in- stitution. The report has an executive summary out- lining and indexing principal segments of the report in detail. The study offers a variety of strategies for coping with collection develop- ment in a large institution, including im- proved collection of management data, a re- structuring of the organization, and limitations on collecting goals and objec- tives. In addition to a short summary of the interim report and generous quotations from it, the final report includes appendixes with a bibliography of articles on allocation; a sam- ple collection profile of the music library; a list of data collected by the project at Cor- nell; a list of documents and working papers prepared for the project; and definitions of terms used in the project report. The profile of the music library , by Mi- chael Keller , is of special value because it demonstrates in practice one of the chief planning tools recommended by the project: a collection statement about a type or field of literature. These profiles are more detailed and comprehensive than the standard ALA collection-policy statements and are pro- posed as an essential element of a "plan to control costs by limiting the library's goals and objectives rather than by ad-hoc pro- gram reductions or by trying to apply any kind of budgetary formula." Other major elements of the recom- mended program include a detailed mission statement for the library; a survey of re- search use; definitions of collecting responsi- bilities; factors for decision making on book fund allocation; proposed categories of data I 487 488 I College & Research Libraries • November 1982 and information required for collection planning; an access service department; and working groups charged with implementing this program. The segment of the report on factors for decision making on book fund al- locations (p. 71-73) is a particularly valuable compilation of factors to be considered when dividing up the book budget. · Miller makes a number of significant ob- servations about the planning process. He notes that university libraries have not ap- plied networking concepts within their own institutions, e. g., the library as a clearing- house or reference center for the internal "University Information Resource Net- work." In relation to this concept he sug- gests: "The Library should be encouraged with adequate funding to set up within the library system a clearinghouse to provide re- positories such as art galleries, slide collec- tions, collections of objects or images, collec- tion of audio-visual materials and libraries or document collections outside the library sys- tem." He argues that, if the library takes on responsibility for special materials, e.g., data tapes, slides, phonodiscs, report litera- 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. ~~~~~ ~COV\P?NY 70 Coolidge Hill Road Watertown, MA 02172 (617) 926-5557 ture, and videotapes, then they should do so with the assurance of special funds. He pro- poses that there be a two-level allocation sys- tem, one internal library allocation for core collections, and the other external allocation for highly specialized information services. He notes: "Taking a leaf therefore from some of the schemes by which universities are funding their computer centers, some decen- tralization of funding of library resources will both protect the core of the library budget and put the responsibility for some of the highly specialized resources in the de- partments or colleges with special and par- ticular information requirements, where it belongs." Miller also recommends an important role for circulation in the management of collec- tions. This role includes management re- sponsibility for bindery; security; conserva- tion and preservation; microform collections; user surveys; replacements and withdrawals; duplication policies; and stor- age of materials. Finally, he reiterates Hen- drik Edelman's concern that bibliographic access "has typically been confused with in- depth cataloging," and suggests that "the en- tire concept of access ... bears reexamina- tion." As he and Edelman point out, cataloging is critically important to the broad concept of collection management since libraries are not now readily able tore- spond in a timely fashion to the growing re- quirements to process specialized materials such as company reports, data tapes, micro- forms sets, census publications, collective- bargaining agreements, and other such ma- terials, because there is still a tendency to treat everything with the same level of inten- sity. This study is well written and well docu- mented. The report's few defects stem from its origin as an internal report. It is too bad, for example, that the first and second reports were not published together since there is ex- tensive quotation from the first report, and it would be useful to see these comments in context. There are also some typos; for exam- ple, Leroy Ortopan is referred to twice as Or- top Zan. For the most part, however, the text is very clear and the layout is attractive. One unfortunate binding error is that the two ma- jor charts showing the "University Informa- tion Resources Network" and the "Proposed At Midwest Library Service, We Take The Team Approach To Assist Your Library :. 1 \~.:! Pam Rodgers/ \ Carl Dorr ¥ (SOUTHEAST) \Forrest E. Link Carol Lehmkuh} ¥ (NORTHEAST) ~. \Kevin P. Coyle Linda Market/ ¥ (MIDWEST) Glenda Ward/ ~,~~ fawrence D. Nagel Pat Hamil / ¥ (WEST) To best serve your needs, we have formed five problem-solving service teams to help take the hassle out of book-buying. 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It contains some unique insights into the problems of planning for ac- ademic library collections and is a very useful supplement to the handbooks of the Associa- tion of Research Libraries' Collection Analy- sis Project. Messrs. Miller and Edelman are to be commended for their incisive state- ments about complex collection-planning problems at Cornell because their recom- mendations will have enduring value outside of Ithaca.-Frederick C. Lynden, Brown University. Carpenter, Michael. Corporate Authorship: Its Role in Library Cataloging. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1981. 200p. $27.50. LC 80-1026. ISBN 0-313-22065-4. Now, when the dust has settled after the debate between the supporters and oppo- nents of corporate "authorship," triggered by the preparation of AACR2, we have a "WE WROTE THE BOOK ON SERVICE" - (/()a/t/lua/t(m t lia/11~/(9 @n/nw ! AMBASSADOR BOOK SERVICE, INC. II "furnishing books and related services to academic & research libraries" 42 CHASNER STREET HEMPSTEAD, NY 11550 (516) 489-4011 good book on the topic. The timing seems un- fortunate, because a publication date a few years earlier would have helped to clarify some of the issues then under debate. The book is divided into three parts: (1) "The Problem of Corporate Authorship," (2) "The Nature of Authorship," and (3) "Con- clusion." The first part is a description of the rise, development, and ultimate demise of the concept of corporate "authorship," lim- ited mostly as it was to the English-speaking world and lasting approximately a century and a quarter. The second part analyzes the concept of authorship in more general terms, presenting the main arguments pro or con for the extension of the concept to include corpo- rate bodies in addition to the traditional per- sonal authors. The book is well written and offers a fairly thorough expose of relevant developments, especially in the United States. If the work has a flaw, it would be its tendency to present the pro-corporate-authorship arguments more fully than their counterpoints. How- ever, even so, the reader gets a clear presen- tation of the qualitative differences between personal and corporate authorship and of the theoretical difficulties faced by anyone try- ing to formulate a justification of why per- sonal authors and corporate "authors" should be treated in the same manner in a cataloging code. The procrustean qualities of such a position were not lost on the framers of AACR2 and led, ultimately, to its abandon- ment altogether. It also focuses our attention on what hap- pens when one tries to create a cataloging code, not by starting with the user and what his needs are, but with the code maker's per- ception of what such a code should be. After all, what difference does it make to the user when a main entry under personal name is called "authorship" and one under a corpo- rate body "emanation," when in most cases he is totally unaware of such refinements anyway? The book is, by its nature and topic, of spe- cial interest, and is recommended for collec- tions or persons interested in the history and development of the concept of "authorship." It is definitely not something a practitioner needs to have handy when trying to interpret or unravel the whys of AACR2.-Ake I. Koel, Yale University Library.