College and Research Libraries 286 I College & Research Libraries • May 1979 This last chapter is particularly interesting because Christian points out the security problems minicomputers create for elec- tronic data bases. Apparently , it is techni- cally feasible for anyone equipped with a minicomputer or a computer cassette to "simply take the data base vendor's search output in digital electronic form directl y to the cassette or mini instead of (or in addi- tion to ) getting it as online alphanumeric printout ." In effect, an electronic library can be created to be used and manipulated without economic benefit to the original vendor-electronic theft. Christian's book is a clear exposition of the current state of electronic bibliographic data bases. It seems best suited for library school librari es and academic libraries. De- spite its high price, it is recommended.- Henry M . Yaple, University of Wyoming, Laramie. Clinic on Library Applications of Data Pro- cessing. University of Illinois , 1977. Negotiating for Computer Services. J. L. Divilbiss , editor. Urbana: Graduate School of Library Science , University of Illinois , 1978 . 117p. $8. LC 78-13692. ISBN 0-87845-048-3 . Negotiating for computer services, the topic: of the 1977 Clinic on Library Appli- cations of Data Proc es sing, is an in- creasingly important aspect of library man- agement. Little in-library education and few on-the-job experiences prepare the librarian for the difficulties of making decisions on computer equipment and systems: selection of appropriate machinery , combinations of machinery , programs , support systems, maintenance, and improvement arrange- ments. Too many of the arguments and justifica- tions for computer systems naturally come from the experts in the field , who are also, incidentally , the vendors of the systems. The library may need automation, but how does the library staff " buy" automation in a considered, logical , and timely way? The papers in this collection , while uneven in clarity and depth of detail , will be helpful and edifying to those grappling with the mysteries of design, hardware, software, and contracts. Most of the presentations concern negoti- ations between libraries and agencies out- side their parent institutions-commercial vendors, network services, union lists. James Corey 's discussion of negotiation within an organization is the best written and very informative . He is frank and to the point in describing examples of problems and solutions and the roles of human error and institutional politics in systems. Charles Dyer presents an attorney's tutorial on con- tracts for data processing, d e nse with infor- mation and very useful. The role-playing practicum carried out at the clinic appar- ently worked very well and can be re- peated; all the materials and instructions are included. Richard Boss and G . E. Gurr talk about the ill-fat e d 3M system at Princeton University-from the points of view of the library and vendor respectiv e ly. Boss 's group did essentially what most well- meaning libraries would do in consideration of systems and negotiation of a contract, and the experience was , as we hindsightedly see , a disaster. Gurr gives us a capsule de- scription of the fre e enterprise system in the United State s and informs us that he does not believe in the Golde n Rule but operates under it b ecause " it is simply good sense from a self-serving viewpoint." (Would you buy a used car from this man , much less a circulation system?) Papers on negotiations for OCLC ser- vices, MINITEX services, and the on-line bibliographic data bases offered by BRS are useful and still timely. I have lamented elsewhere in these reviewing pages about th e d elay in publishing proceedings of this annual clinic; in the case of the 1977 clinic the proceedings have a certain timelessness and value , at least as long as libraries con- tinue to muddle through the decisions at- tending automating their libraries . Ronald Brady, vice-president for adminis- tration at the University of Illinois , assures us that librarians need not be the underdogs in negotiations. He gives perhaps the best advice when he urges thoroughness of thoughtful planning, a conceptual model for the system we want, and attacking the right problem-that of the future instead of that of the present. He also stresses that very few computer systems in the educational environment have reduced costs, although rsity of London Teachers College of the Virgin Islands Museum of Science Agricultural & Technical lnst. 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It is from this point that librarians should begin their deliberations and negotiations for computer systems-and use the rest of these proceed- ings along the way.-Fay Zipkowitz, Wor- cester Area Cooperating Libraries , Worces- ter , Massachusetts . Howell , J. B., ed. Special Collections in Li- braries of the Southeast. With an in- troduction by Frances N eel Cheney. Jackson , Miss. : Published for the South- eastern Library Association by Hawick House, 1978. 423p. $15. (Available from Southeastern Library Association, P.O. Box 987 , Tucker , GA 30084.) There are several surprises in this new survey of special collections in libraries of the Southeast; at least, there were for me. I might have expected to find a large collec- tion of books on furniture in High Point , North Carolina, but I did not know that the South Asia collection of about .100,000 vol- umes at the University of Virginia is "the most complete collection of this kind of rna- terial in the world." I knew that the Keene- land Association in Lexington, Kentucky , has a splendid collection relating to the breeding and racing of thoroughbred horses, but I was surprised to learn that the Uni- versity of Miami has more than 130,000 vol~mes of Soviet imprints , most of them after 1960, along with complete or substan- tial files of 500 Soviet periodicals. Special Collections in Libraries of th e Southeast is a fascinating guide to research collections in Alabama , Florida, Georgia , Kentucky , Mississippi , North Carolina , South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia , and West Virginia. It is arranged in outline form , alphabetically by state and then al- phabetically by city, with most of the 2,022 collections described in just a few lines. An index by owning institution and another by subject give easy access to the outline , al- though the absence of running titles makes it difficult to know where you are , geo- graphically. 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