College and Research Libraries 274 College & Research Libraries of overriding concern to the federal gov- ernment or to the general public." In "The United States Government Printing Office in the 1980s" William J. Barrett complements Schwarzkopf nicely by fo- cusing on the impact of technology on the GPO. Luciana Marulli-Koenig examines collection development principles and ap- plications relating to United Nations doc- umentation. Peter I. Hajnal provides a ba- sic description of Unesco's documents and publications and of the problems of bibliographic control. In "The Uses and Misuses of Information Found in Govern- ment Publications" Joe Morehead engag- ingly presents an issue that has both prac- tical and ethical implications. What is the librarian's role in interpreting, pointing out pitfalls, and warning about unreliable statistical data particularly for unsophisti- cated library users? Is there an obligation to do more than acquire, catalog, and make government information accessible? Citing examples of widely used statistics that may be misleading, easily misinter- preted without close attention to explana- ~ MAGAz;l'v. 00 << Olin> 'f"--<1 !Sj) % MC~~EGOR /!] <::::.: < ¥ ~ ~)' 1933-1983 k-> 'o ~ORRIS, ll'-\~O DISCOVER McGregor Where Customers Are Names-Not Numbers "Personalized" Subscription Service-Since 1933 • All domestic and foreign titles • Title Research • Single billing • Automatic renewal • Personal customer • Prepaid account subscriptions representatives Let an experienced McGregor "Home Office" representative simplify your complex problems of periodical procurement. Prompt and courteous service has been a tradition with McGregor since 1933. Our customers like it-We think you would . too! Write for catalog or Phone 815/734-4183 May 1983 tory material, or self-serving, Morehead concludes by saying he is attempting to raise the question of the librarian's role for further discussion. The article could well serve as an excellent introduction to dis- cussion of the topic. As a group, the papers in this volume do not make a unified statement nor do they conform all that well to the collection de- velopment and public access title they've been assigned. However, each of them does make a valuable contribution- whether it is in providing background in- formation, outlining an approach to a cur- rent topic of concern, or describing an area where research is badly needed. Although the book is a worthwhile addition to li- braries with extensive holdings in govern- ment publications and/or library science, its $29.95 price tag may well be a deterrent to libraries without them.-Carol Turner, Stanford University Libraries. Price, Paxton P., ed. International Book and Library Activities: The History of a U.S. Foreign Policy. Metuchen, N.J.: Scare- crow Press, 1982. 248p. LC 82-3297. ISBN 0-8108-1545-1. This is a frustrating book because its generous title implies far more than actu- ally comes through. The U.S. govern- ment, through one agency or another, has long and usefully been involved in a vari- ety of international book and library activi- ties. A focussed analysis of this rich experience could be enlightening and fas- cinating, but it has not yet been written. One thinks immediately of such undertak- ings as: the Library War Service estab- lished by the ALA in 1917, with its inter- esting progeny the American Library in Paris; the aggressive Library of Congress Mission to Europe in search of wartime books beginning in 1943, and its aftermath the Farmington Plan; the expansive and often embattled U.S.I.A. overseas library program; the practical Franklin Books Pro- gram; and, of course, the extensive, worldwide activities of ALA's Interna- tional Relations Board under the sponsor- ship and funding of a number of govern- ment agencies as well as private foundations. However, this book barely mentions but a few of these and concentrates only on the high intentions, largely aborted, of the Interagency Committee on Books, on which Paxton Price was the H. E. W. repre- sentative, established in 1966 by an en- lightened Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, Charles Frankel, in an attempt to support the goals of President Johnson's "Great Society." The Committee's National Policy State- ment on International Book and Library Activities, issued in January 1967, was an unexceptionable pronouncement, but po- litically it came too late. Two years later the new Nixon Administration, as is the custom, abandoned this along with such other Johnson projects as it could. The only fruit of the National Policy Statement was, in effect, this book, which consists of little more than about two hundred pages Recent Publications 275 of largely undifferentiated extracts from the responses of overseas missions and posts to Dean Rusk's requests for com- ments on the several paragraphs of the in- tended new policy-paragraph by para- graph, country by country-with no useful analysis or synthesis, and, of course, with no results. The National Policy Statement itself should not be forgotten, but it should be recalled as a footnote in some larger theme, such as an article on the little- known but impressive Government Advi- sory Committee on International Book and Library Programs, which actually drafted the National Policy Statement for the Interagency Committee. There, in G.A.C., is a story waiting to be told.- Robert Vosper, University of California, Los Angeles. ABSTRACTS The following abstracts are based on those prepared by the ERIC Clearinghouse of Infor- mation Resources, School of Education, Syra- cuse University. Documents with an ED number here may be ordered in either microfiche (MF) or paper copy (PC) from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service, P.O. Box 190, Arlington, VA 22210. Orders should include ED number, specify for- mat desired, and include payment for docu- ment and postage. Further information on ordering documents and on current postage charges may be obtained from a recent issue of Resources in Educa- tion. Motivational Properties of Support Staff Tasks in the Face of Automation. By Edward D. Garten. 1981. lOp. ED 217 830. MF-$0.83; PC-$1.82. This paper maintains that staff needs which are both implicit and explicit within the automation-laden technical services work in a library setting most often do not receive ade- quate attention from the library's supervisory staff . It argues that analysis of problem areas within a given unit in the library can better pro- mote positive strategies for dealing with tech- nology related concerns of library personnel. Further, the paper recommends that supervi- sory personnel be aware of the importance of reaffirming the value of the human services rendered by support or clerical staff within the work setting. Library Specifications for a New Circula- tion System for Concordia University Libraries. By James Tallon. 1981. 17p. ED 217 848. MF-$0.83; PC-$1.82. This study of library requirements for a new circulation system is organized into three sec- tions : (1) items required for initial implementa- tion in July 1982; (2) items relating to notice gen- eration and activity statistics, with imple- mentation expected by fall 1982; and (3) items provided in the system as initially imple- mented, with additional programming re- quired. Items in the first section include bor- rower information, conversion process, borrower information requirements, reserves, fines, requests, internal borrowers, CMF /item file, table governing routine procedures with online read and write access, and form of infor- mation display. Items in the fall 1982 imple- mentation section are listed under fines, re- quests, internal borrowers, and additional requirements. The final section lists items un- der borrower information, reserves, internal borrowers, general system requirements, and additional requirements.