College and Research Libraries . 490 Interestingly, the topic of money was in- troduced only in the discussions. The li- brary administrators note that the identifi- cation of new roles for libraries and librarians begs the question of where in- creased resources to support innovation will be obtained. The only course of action recommended during the panel discus- sions was to gain the support of the CEO and the trustees of the institution, and thus more politics. Sadly, the recommendations provide confirmation of the existence of University Standard Time. To make possible self- directed, independent learners, "infor- mation and evaluation skills need to be mastered at the undergraduate level, and learning opportunities should be inte- grated within the existing departments, analogous to 'writing across the curricu- lum,' rather than stand-alone biblio- graphic instruction programs." In 1960, Patricia Knapp's Monteith Library Pro- gram sought "to stimulate and guide stu- dents in developing sophisticated under- standing of the library and increasing competence in its use. To achieve this end, [the project] proposes to provide students with experiences which are functionally related to their course work.'' Obviously, our libraries and our cam- puses have made frustratingly little prog- ress toward the objective identified thirty years ago. Even in University Standard Time, this is exceedingly slow.-Ellen Hoffmann, York University, Ontario, Canada. Lancaster, F. Wilfrid. If You Want to Evaluate Your Library . . . Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Sci- ence, 1988. 193p. $34.50 (ISBN 0-87845- 078-5). LC 88-091-099. Unrelenting pressure on library budgets is forcing administrators to look not only at those programs that can be reduced or eliminated, but also at the efficiency and effectiveness of mainline services. Toward this end, If You Want to Evaluate Your Li- brary . . . arrives at a most opportune time. Covering much of the same ground, al- beit in a highly condensed manner as in his standard 1977 work Measurement and July 1989 Evaluation of Library Services, Lancaster be- gins with an excellent chapter that defines the evaluative process and then ties this definition to libraries via Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science. This is fol- lowed by chapters on the evaluation of document delivery and reference services. Interestingly, the author prefaces this work by contending that the earlier Mea- surement and Evaluation of Library Services was II never . . . completely satisfactory for use as a text .... It is a review and syn- thesis of earlier literature rather than a practical guide to the conduct of evalua- tions within libraries. 11 This clearly raises a classic "theory versus practice" issue, typically waged over the teaching of cata- loging. Should courses stress the theory behind the process or practical technique? Ideally both. Evaluation without a theo- retical base will leave the reviewer unable to utilize the results intelligently, while a theoretically sound review conducted in- appropriately will render unreliable data from which to proceed. Fortunately, this volume exhibits a workable balance be- tween theory and practice and should prove an excellent basic primer for stu- dents and practitioners alike. Unfortunately, the mix of various types of libraries and areas within libraries is not so balanced. The overwhelming focus is on collection development and public ser- vices, to the virtual exclusion of technical services, and on issues that relate primar- ily to academic research libraries. If, for ex- ample, "your library" is a small public li- brary interested in evaluating its technical services department, this volume will be of scant utility. In short, the title suggests a general guide to evaluation, while the content is much more narrowly focused. Beyond the minor issue of the title, the volume should serve as a logical capstone to coursework in collection development and public services, and as a suitable guide for librarians contemplating their first evaluative process. The select bibliog- raphy will serve to guide those desiring more than an introduction, although iden- tification of desired citations would have been facilitated by bibliographic listings at the end of each chapter, as was the case in the earlier Measurement and Evaluation of Li- brary Seroices, instead of a consolidated list. In summary, Lancaster's earlier work on this topic was considerably more thor- ough and comprehensive and one cannot help but wonder why an updated second edition of that work was not produced in- stead of this pared down version. Still, ยท this is a solid treatment of a timely topic from one of the leading experts, if not the leading expert, in the field, making this a logical source for students and librarians alike who are interested in the evaluation process.-Clifford H. Haka, Michigan State University, East Lansing. Shailor, Barbara A. Catalogue of Medi- eval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Reinecke Rare Book Room and Man- uscript Library, Yale University. Vol- ume II: Mss. 251-500. Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1987. 578p. $36 (ISBN 0- 86698-030-X (alk. paper v.2) ). LC 84- 667. Barbara Shailor' s catalogue is the sec- ond of presumably three volumes to de- scribe the holdings of the Beinecke Rare Book Room and Manuscript Library at Yale University (for a review of Vol. I in these pages, see C&RL 47:518-20 (1986). It catalogues 250 manuscripts, a group of books that date from the ninth to the nine- teenth century and were made in diverse centers ranging from Europe to Central America. Because of their disparate nature, these manuscripts pose problems of presenta- tion on both the levels of organization of the book as a whole and of individual en- tries. First, how does one structure such a varied group of entries in order to give them coherence? Shailor discusses the books in numerical order rather than se- lecting thematic divisions as organizing principles-divisions, such as country of origin (as is being done in the ongoing cat- alogue of manuscripts of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, whose French volume has just appeared), or type of text (literary, historical, devotional, etc.). She offsets the random nature of the presentation by providing at the end of the volume a series of indices intended to aid the reader in Recent Publications 491 placing the manuscripts in appropriate ge- ographical, chronological, artistic, and so- cial contexts. These aids to the reader give some coherence and shape to the collec- tion. Following the indices, however, are a sequence of plates whose organizational structure is not immediately apparent. These illustrations are labeled with manu- script number, folio citation, and an indi- cation of scale which notes whether the pictures are of natural size, enlarged, or reduced. Nothing in the list of plates or their captions makes clear that these im- ages are arranged geographically and chronologically (showing in plates 3-23 German, French, and Netherlandish manuscripts, in plates 24-27 English man- uscripts, in plates 28-41 Italian manu- scripts, in plate 42 a later German exam- ple, in plate 43 a Central European manuscript, in plates 44-53 Byzantine manuscripts, and in plates 54-61 Greek texts written in Italy). Such clarification would enhance the utility of the illustra- tions. Indeed, the catalogue as a whole would benefit from the inclusion of an in- troduction to volume II which specifies how the book was structured; as it stands, the reader has to consult the introduction to the first volume for such information. A second problem that a cataloger faces is how to discuss individual manuscripts. Sailor has opted for a traditional structure that she fleshes out with carefully ob- served detail that is particularly rich in the treatment of texts. Within each entry Shailor provides a description of the man- uscript's contents, including incipits for unpublished texts and citations of critical editions for published ones. This is fol- lowed by a physical description (discus- sions of support, ruling, collation, script, artistic concerns, and binding), discussion of provenance, and bibliography. The length of her entries and their attention to details of concern to historians, literary scholars, art historians, and codicologists are impressive and will make the cata- logue a very useful research tool. How- ever, the resultant fragmented structure . detracts from the reader's experience of the individual manuscripts themselves. In some ways this catalogue presents so