College and Research Libraries 296 College & Research Libraries communication, and social aspects of in- formation exchange. Unifying these top- ics is McGarry's interest in the relation- ship of information to societal structure. The work is as much a manifesto as an analysis. The author believes that access to information will soon constitute the ma- jor basis for wealth. He assumes that in- formation workers have as a major objec- tive the lessening of social and economic inequities. He exhorts his readers to pur- sue the ideal of equal and open access to information in the interests of social jus- tice. McGarry provides little in the way of justification for his views. In a scant 188 pages, an author cannot, of course, treat any subject fully. McGarry rightly anticipated that specialists would fault him for omissions and simplifica- tions at "a thousand points. 11 While most of McGarry's lapses will not harm his readers, some omissions might lead to a misunderstanding of current trends. Con- spicuously missing are references to the Research Library Information Network, Boolean logic, commercial databases, and selectivity in automated information sys- tems. More frustrating than McGarry's omis- sion of factual information is his lack of reference to sources. Defending his method of providing only chapter-by- chapter bibliographies, McGarry explains that he ''attempted to comply with the re- quirements of scholarly courtesy by listing sources of quotations and statistical mat- ter and by encouraging readers to use the bibliographies provided. 11 McGarry, who treats scholarly communication in this work, surely knows that the acknowledg- ment of sources is more than a social ges- ture. It is a necessity in scholarly writing in order to give credit where due, to build a scholarly literature, and to stimulate criti- cal inquiry. Had McGarry tied his obser- vations more closely to his excellent bibliography, he would have greatly strengthened his credibility. One article that McGarry included, but seems not to have absorbed, deals with misogyny in library literature. McGarry sticks doggedly with the all-inclusive mas- culine pronoun until his final chapter when he unexpectedly introduces a single July 1983 ''she.'' More significant is McGarry's con- sistent neglect of the role of women as readers, teachers, writers, and librarians. Not all the flaws in this book are McGarry's fault. The author was not served well by his designer and editor. The typeface is small and the pages crowded. The scarcity of punctuation throughout, combined with the density of type, makes decipherment of the text diffi- cult. Finally, there are too many typo- graphical errors. Despite inadequacies, the work is still useful as ancillary reading for students en- tering information work. The author in- troduces virtually all the acronyms, jar- gon, and institutions of the profession. He provides a carefully selected and current bibliography in a field in which it is diffi- cult, to use the author's words, to keep ''bang up to date.'' And he identifies top- ics appropriate to the study of information work. McGarry's most valuable contribu- tion is his raising of ethical issues that he reasonably surmises information workers will face in the coming decades.-Deirdre C. Starn, Bibliographical Society of America. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, V.17. Ed. by Martha E. Williams, White Plains, N.Y.: Knowl- edge Industry Publications, 1982. 367p. $45. LC 66-25096. ISBN 0-86729-032-3. ISSN 0066-4200. CODEN:ARISBC. What can one say about a highly praised review series that has now published its seventeenth annual volume? More good things, mostly. ARIST' s first volume was published in 1966, to immediate and unceasing ac- claim, through the intrepid leadership of Carlos A. Cuadra. Cuadra served as editor for ten years, forging and enforcing high standards for scope, content, format, and indexing; his name will not be found in the introductory pages of the current vol- ume, but his imprint remains. His succes- sor as editor, Martha E. Williams, intrepid in her own right, has to a large degree re- tained, maintained, and in some respects enhanced those standards. ARIST is owned by the American Society for Infor- mation Science (ASIS); but, starting with volume 12, business aspects of publishing ARIST have been assigned to Knowledge Industry Publications, with ASIS retain- ing editorial control. An annual volume of ARIST contains a number of separately authored reviews (typically nine in recent years), each on a fairly distinct aspect of the broadly con- ceived field of information science. Since specific review topics are not necessarily repeated annually, it is common for are- view to cover the literature of several years rather than just one year. References of the publications covered are listed at the end of the review. A rich dictionary index provides access to all the subjects and cited authors covered in the entire vol- ume. An additional feature, initiated three years ago, is a cumulative KWOC index of title keywords and authors of the reviews in all ARIST volumes to date; this simpli- fies longitudinal searching and extends reader awareness of the value of older vol- umes. Table 1lists some of the most interesting quantitative attributes of the current vol- ume and of volumes published five, ten, and fifteen years earlier. It gives figures (some are estimates) and also ratios for number of reviews, total pages, review text pages and words, references covered, index terms and entries, publication price, and price in constant dollars. The com par- Recent Publications 297 ison suggests essential constancy over the years in the average length of a review and the number of references it lists, and per- haps also in the average number of index entries generated for a review. However, with volume 12, there oc- curred a drop of from one-fourth to one- third in the amount of review material in- cluded in a volume (fewer reviews, less text, less literature covered); the current volume is very similar in these respects to volume 12, except for the inclusion of the new cumulative index. There was thus an abrupt drop in the quantitative value re- ceived for the purchase price. Although with the current volume the purchase price as measured in constant dollars has been restored almost to the earlier range, the amount of review material provided is still at the reduced level. For purchasers, the implications go beyond mere eco- nomics. If the amount of information sci- ence literature discussed annually is re- duced or held constant while that literature is growing rapidly worldwide, a reader may well conclude that ARIST is condemned to fall ever further behind in the extent to which it actually reviews new developments in its field; at some point, ARIST' s reputation for excellence and au- thority would be called into question. Turning from consideration of the quan- tity of ARIST' s coverage to consideration TABLE 1 CHARACTERISTICS OF ARISTVOLUMES, 5-YEAR INTERVALS Vol.17 Vol.12 Vol. 7 Vol.2 1982 1977 1972 1%7 Number of reviews in volume 9 9 13 14 Pages in volume 380 374 616 492 Pages devoted to review text 178 188 388 357 Words of review text 89,000 88,000 155,000 150,000 References in reviews* 1290 1308 1892 1594 Terms in volume index 3000 4000 6000 2400 Entries in volume index 4900 5000 8700 3000 Cumulative KWOC index included? Yes No No No Text words per review 9900 9800 11,900 10,700 References per review 143 145 146 114 Text words per reference* 69 67 82 94 Index entries per review 540 555 670 220 Price when published $45.00 $35.00 $17.50 $15.00 Price in constant 1967 dollars $15.48 $19.29 $13.98 $15.00 Text words per 1967 dollars 5700 4600 11,100 10,000 References per 1967 dollar* 83 68 135 106 Index entries per 1967 dollar 320 260 620 200 *Figures are not adjusted for any instances of a reference being listed in more than one review in the same volume or in different volumes . 298 College & Research Libraries of its quality and scope, the current vol- ume causes no misgivings whatever. Rosenberg's ''National Information Poli- cies" reviews material on the status and issues of policy development, particularly in the U.S.; this is supplemented by Mc- Donald's briefer ''Public Sector/Private Sector Interaction in Information Ser- vice." Brimmer's "U.S. Telecommunica- tions Common Carrier Policy'' is a contin- uation of last year's review of national planning for data communication; it con- veys a complex picture of rapid transition and unresolved problems. Kantor's ''Evaluation of and Feedback in Informa- tion Storage and Retrieval Systems" uses perhaps too much space describing an an- alytical approach that seems largely su- perfluous, but does indeed review the lit- erature on this topic. Travis and Fidel in "Subject Analysis" describe a mature field of study that is sadly unknown to nonparticipants who could make good use of it. Lundeen and Davis review "Library Automation," a topic that is often brought up to date in ARIST because of activity and interest. Wooster's ''Biomedical Communica- tions" provides a broad historical review of this new ARISTtopic. Levitan examines work in "Information Resource(s) Man- agement'' (as contrasted with information systems and services management) and finds it to be a field with considerable, but not yet overwhelming, acceptance. Grif- fiths reviews recent work on estimating ''The Value of Information and Related Systems, Products and Services" and finds some grounds for optimism. ARIST continues to deserve high praise. Anyone involved with libraries or infor- mation who is not yet familiar with this se- ries would be well advised to take this vol- ume and read just the paragraph or two of "Conclusions" at the end of each review. This brief exposure will be enough to in- form, inspire, and stimulate a desire to read and think more deeply on all those review topics we didn't know we cared about but really do.-Ben-Ami Lipetz, State University of New York at Albany. Doughery, Richard M. and Heinritz, Fred J. Scientific Management of Library Opera- July 1983 tions, 2d ed. Metuchen, N.J.; Scarecrow 1982. 286p. $15. LC 81-18200 . ISBN 0- 8108-1485-4. The time has long passed when it could be suggested (as it was in these pages by a reviewer of the 1966 edition of Dougherty and Heinritz' Scientific Management of Li- brary Operations) that management is but one part of the library administrator's work and that flowcharting, time studies, cost analysis, and performance standards are nonlibrary subjects. Few would now dispute that the profession requires man- agement specialists equal to any in the world of business and industry and that the analytical tools which have proven valuable in the profit sector are as essential to libraries as ''books and bibliography.'' Yet it must be admitted that many of the methods and approaches set forth by the authors some sixteen years ago have seen little widespread application in libraries. To be sure, decision flowcharting has be- come commonplace as libraries have moved into the "revolution in library sys- tems work'' that Dougherty and Heinritz remind us has occurred since the publica- tion of their first edition. But, can it be said that performance standards in libraries re- ally are the norm, or that time study has been undertaken in anything but a super- ficial way? Motion study, forms analysis, even flow techniques other than decision charting have fcund little broad-based ac- ceptance. In this thorough revision of their important work, the authors argue convincingly that careful analysis of li- brary activities through use of the tools and techniques of the management scien- tist is as important today as at any time in the past. New chapters have been added on ''System Implementation and the Process of Change," "Human Factors Engineer- ing," and "Project Planning Tech- niques." The latter is largely a treatment of Gantt charts and critical path methodol- ogy. Dropped from the work are a long analysis of a circulation system that was a major part of the earlier edition as well as a dated chapter on aids to computation. In their place several useful topics have been added: a treatment of decision trees and tables; a more complete consideration of