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564 I College & Research Libraries • November 1976 

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Donald V. Black and Carlos A. Cuadra 
have developed this 1975 edition by merg-
ing, updating, and expanding material 
found in both 1972 publications. Descrip-
tions of consortia that went out of existence 
by 1974 were deleted, and data on over a 
dozen new cooperative groups were added. 
The resulting volume contains entries for 
264 consortia, providing for each the fol-
lowing information: name and date of 
founding; geographical area served; mem-
bers and dates of joining; purposes and ob-
jectives; current activities; projected activ-
ities; conditions of participation; annual 
budget and sources of funding; staffing; ad-
visory boards; publications; location of 
headquarters; and contact person. 

There are several signi£cant academic 
library networks that are not listed in this 
second edition (e.g., P ALINET, SLICE, 
SOLINET, the SUNY library system, and 
the Research Libraries Group). Similarly, 
entries for some organizations are over four 
years old and now obsolete. Nevertheless, 
this book can be useful to those interested 
in learning about cooperative groups. In-
dexes to consortia by activities (ranging 
from acquisitions to workshops), by names 
of organizations (including parent bodies 
and acronyms), and by geographical areas 
served simplify the location of information. 
Unfortunately, this new Directory of Aca-
demic Library Consortia lacks the detailed 
analyses of data, comparisons, and statis-
tical tables found in both the first edition 
and its supplement.-Leonard Grundt, Pro-
fessor and Chairperson, Library Depart-
ment, Nassau Community College, Garden 
City, New York. 

Media in Higher Education, The Critical 
Issues: Ideas, Analysis, Confrontation. 
Pullman, Wash.: Information Futures, 
1976. 111p. $13.85. 
In February 1976 Information Futures 

sponsored a "conference-seminar" on media 
in higher education. The purpose of the 
meeting was to identify and discuss-not 
solve-problems in the field of media in 
higher education. This publication is a re-
sult of that conference. 

Most of the nine papers in this collec-
tion cover familiar ground; seven papers 
deal with "issues," and there are introduc-

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tory and concluding ones. Margaret Chis-
holm's introductory paper defines media 
programs in terms of what media people 
do; she lists ten functions that characterize 
an optimum media program. W. C. Meier-
henry considers "trends and pressures 
which have molded and shaped institution-
al programs in the present and past" 
(p.47). He finds eleven reasons why great-
er use of media in higher education has not 
occurred but considers the growth of inter-
est in individualized instruction (exempli-
fied by Sam Postlethwait anq Fred S. Kel-
ler) an encouraging sign for the role of 
media in the future. Charles Vlcek and Da-
vid M. Crossman take opposite stands on 
the thorny question of integrated library/ 
media programs; Vlcek argues the combina-
tion is doomed to fail, while Crossman 
stoutly defends it. Vlcek's paper is heady 
stuff, even for the author (who found it de-
sirable to describe the position advanced 
in his paper as overstated for the purpose 
of argument). Following this, Donald 
Riecks and John A . . Davis consider central-
ized media services versus decentralized 
media services; Riecks surveys the structure 
of several large-campus media programs 
and concludes that centralization is "the 
most logical method of providing the inter-
relation of media support elements while 
making optimum use of available resources" 
(p.69), while Davis argues that "control 
of the media of instruction by any single 
agency is likely to be inimical to the goal 
of campus-wide improvement of instruc-
tion" (p.82). Gerald R. Brong (the issue 
editor) contributes two papers, one on in-
formation center management and the other 
on budgeting for media programs. The con-
cluding paper, by Amo De Bernardis, ex-
horts media personnel to give "dynamic 
leadership" to the improvement of instruc-
tion. The theme of "improving" education 
is, in fact, a sort of conference keynote; 
when distinguishing between libraries and 
media programs, several contributors define 
libraries as entities that "support" instruc-
tion and media programs as entities that 
"improve" it. 

The publication has some irritating fea-
tures. There are misspellings: the Carnegie 
Commission is frequently rendered "Car-
neigie." There are also some rather odd 
grammatical constructions in the preface 

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and introduction: How does a "goal" [sub-
ject] "target at" [verb] something? The 
spiral-bound format is functional and prob-
ably economical, but not particularly eye-
catching. The material, however, is useful 
and compactly presented.-Cathleen Flana-
gan, Graduate School of Library Science, 
University af Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 
Thompson, Anthony Hugh. Censorship in 

Public Libraries in the United Kingdom 
during the Twentieth Century. New 
York: Bowker, 1975. 236p. $15.95. 
(ISBN 0-85935-0 19-3) 
A revision of the author's master's thesis, 

this study purports to be the first thorough 
analysis of censorship in U.K. public li-
braries. It reveals, probably to the surprise 
of very few, that censorship has been fre-
quently imposed on and practiced by those 
libraries. During the troubled years of 
World War II, for example, a refusal to 
purchase potentially troublesome political 
publications, including the Daily Worker, 
created a controversy in Southport, as did 
a ban on the purchase of Huxley's work on 
saving one's sight, The Art of Seeing. Dur-
ing the 1950s the book critic of the West 
London Observer conducted an editorial 
campaign against alleged library censorship 
to win a place on open shelves in West 
London for Memoirs af Hecate County. In 
the 1960s the Manchester Libraries Com-
mittee decided to purchase Lady Chatter-
ley's Lover ("If the father of a 15-year-old 
girl does not want her to read Lady C., it 
is his responsibility to stop her . . . borrow-
ing it from the library"), whereas the F1eet-
wood Library Committee .rejected the book 
because "it has the morals of a farmyard." 

As in the U.S., well-publicized contro-
versies over library materials in Britain 
have usually been the product of citizens' 
complaints (an outraged mother wrote to 
the Bury Free Press in 1960: "If members 
of the Town Council's libraries committee 
are aware of certain types of novels, some 
of them really disgusting ... "), as well as 
the public decisions of library committees 
reluctant to endanger public morals and the 
support of libraries by local ratepayers. 

Again, as in the U.S., British librarians 
have both favored and opposed library cen-
sorship. In 1928 Stanley Snaith, then chief 
assistant in Islington Public Libraries, ar-