College and Research Libraries United States counterparts in developing networks, Professor Hayashi stated that with the present rapid development of Japanese libraries he was confident " that we will sooner or later have our contributions to make." Certainly we must recognize those already made by a number of Japanese li- brarians (particularly in the National Diet Library) in assisting American academic li- brarians in the acquisition and processing of Japanese publications . It is too early to de- termine whether this air of confidence is justified, but no one who is at all acquainted with the remarkable capabilities and achievements of the scholarly and technological community in Japan should take too pessimistic a view of long-range prospects .-Everett T. Moore , University of California, Los Angeles. Cutter, Charles Ammi. Charks Ammi Cut- ter: Library Systematizer. Edited by Francis L. Miksa. The Heritage of Librar- ianship Series, no. 3. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1977. 344p. $17.50 U.S . and Canada; $21.00 elsewhere. LC 76-58870. ISBN 0-87287-112-6. Were it not for the Cutter-Sanborn Ta- bles, it is probable that many librarians would not have heard-or would not remember-the name of Charles Ammi Cutter. Yet, this thoughtful , dedicated li- brarian was one of the shapers of the profes- sion and made lasting contributions to li- brary service. Miksa' s new book helps to give Cutter his rightful place in the profes- sion's hall of fame. Part I of Charles Ammi Cutter: Library Systematizer provides the details of Cutter's life , his career, the overall principles under which he practiced his chosen profession, and the contributions he made to it. Part II, the greater part of the volume, gives selec- tions from Cutter's writings classified under the s.ubjects: administration, fiction, perspectives on the library profession, cataloging, classification, and personal perspectives . Part III provides a bibliogra- phy of Cutter's works, of which only sum- maries can be supplied for some categories of his large output. And last, a short but useful index. Each of the sections is intro- duced with an informative statement by the editor. In an inspired gesture, Miksa has Recent Publications I 145 chosen to dedicate his opus to Seymour Lubetzky, who, like Cutter 100 years ago, "has called our attention to the need for basic principles in cataloging." Michael Harris, editor of The Heritage of Librarianship Series , of which this is number 3, says in his foreword, "Those who seek a model of how practical expertise might be developed within a clearly and constantly understood philosophy of library service can do no better than to study care- fully the life and work of Charles Ammi Cutter." And this is indeed the process that Miksa unfolds in his book. The articulate and hardworking Cutter examined his own and his colleagues' activi- ties critically and sought to improve and generalize from experience. He shared his conclusions through writing and public de- bate and worked for progress through cooperative attacks on common problems . He was a generous man, dedicated more to improving his profession than to improving his position in it. Miksa explains Cutter's ideal of the li- brary as an "enculturating process" and his view of the library itself, in Harris' words, "as a complex, but unified, system which could make a basic contribution to life in America." Cutter's best known contribution to li- brarianship is his codification of cataloging rules first appearing in 1876 as Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue. The late Paul Dunkin, no slouch as a writer himself, wrote of the Rules: "Probably his is the only book of rules for cataloging which is fascinat- ing reading." Miksa' s drawing together of the four editions of the Rules to show suc- cessive changes, while useful, cannot serve as a substitute for holding the original pub- lication in one's hands, savoring its elegance of presentation, and realizing what its first appearance meant. Cutter the man emerges clearly from his writings. To relish his attractive personality the reader should turn to his writings, where, with clarity, ease, and grace, Cutter has shared the products of his lively intelli- gence. Based on some of Cutter's work, Miksa calls him a "literary and library journalist." Lacking a library press, Cutter perforce wrote for less specialized periodicals. He 146 I College & Research Libraries • March 1978 was thus , as Miksa says, "a reporter to the world of culture on the progress of the li- brary movement ." Although he appeared in such diverse publications as the Boston Daily Advertiser and the North American Review, his two principal outlets were the Nation and the Library Journal . He joined in establishing the latter in 1876 and par- ticipated in its editorship continuously from the beginning to October 1893. With its es- tablishment, he was able to speak more di- rectly to lihrari