College and Research Libraries Recent Publications COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES Osburn, Charles B. Academic Research and Library Resources: Changing Patterns in America, reviewed by Stuart Forth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Advances in Librarianship. V.9, reviewed by Perry D. Morrison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Stoffie, Carla, and Karter, Simon. Materials & Methods for History Research, reviewed by Daniel F. Ring ................ , ......... :. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 SPINDEX Users Conference, reviewed by James W. Geary .. : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Tymn, Marshall B.; Zahorski, Kenneth J.; and Boyer, Robert H. Fantasy Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide, reviewed by J. B. Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Librar-Ws in Society: A Reader, reviewed by Dorothy F . Thomson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Alfxander, Edward P. Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums, reviewed by Edward G. Holley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Bonham-Carter, Victor. Authors by Profession. Volume One, reviewed by Charles Helzer . .. ... ... . ....... . ...... . . .... . .. . ... ... . . ... ....................... 156 Bernier, Charles L., and Yerkey, A. Neil. Cogent Communication: Overcoming Read- ing Overload, reviewed by Herbert S. White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 The Osler Library, reviewed by Estelle Brodman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Bahr, Alice Harrison . Automated Library Circulation Systems, 1979-80. 2d ed. , re- viewed by Howard Pasternack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Allen, Nancy. Film Study Collections: A Guide to Their Development and Use, re- viewed by Cathleen Flanagan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Wiegand, Wayne A. The History of a Hoax, reviewed by Arthur P. Young . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Reese, Rosemary S., comp. Documentation of Collections, reviewed by E. Richard McKinstry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Lee, Marshall. Bookmaking: The Illustrated Guide to Design/Production/Editing. 2d ed., reviewed by Richard K. Gardner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Garvey, William D. Communicat-ion: The Essence of Science. Facilitating Information Exchange among Librarians, Scientists, Engineers and Students, reviewed by Herbert S. White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 "The Economics of Academic Libraries," reviewed by Robert L. Burr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 American Library Association. Collection Development Committee. Guidelines for Col- lection Development, reviewed by William Schenck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Collection Management, reviewed by James E. Weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 2nd International Online Information Meeting, reviewed by Audrey N. Grosch . . . . . . . 171 Garfield, Eugene. Citation Indexing-Its Theory and Application in Science, Technol- ogy, and Humanities, reviewed by Stephen P. Harter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Stone, Elizabeth; Sheahan, Eileen; and Harig, Katherine J. Model Continuing Educa- tion Recognition System in Library and Information Science, reviewed by Sylvia G. F aibisoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4 Stoffie, Carla; Karter, Simon; and Pernacciaro, Samuel. Materials & Methods for Politi- cal Science Research, reviewed by Roy H. Fry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Cohen, Aaron, and Cohen, Elaine . Designing and Space Planning for Libraries: A Be- havioral Guide, reviewed by Selby U. Gration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 "Library Buildings," reviewed by Ellsworth Mason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Microforms Management in Special Libraries: A Reader, reviewed by Leo R. Rift . . . . 178 The Map Librarian in the Modern World, reviewed by J. B. Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 O'Hara, Frederic. A Guide to Publications of the Executive Branch, reviewed by Steven D. Zink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Other Publications of Interest to Academic Librarians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 I 145 146 I College & Research Libraries • March 1980 BOOK REVIEWS Osburn, Charles B. Academic Research and Library Resources; Changing Patterns in America. New Directions in Librar- ianship, no.3. Westport, Conn.: Green- wood Pr., 1979. 187p. $18.95. LC 78- 20017. ISBN 0-313-20722-4. This small book is a very important and useful one. It appears at a time when all academic libraries are faced with declining revenues; and, the rents in "the seamless fabric of librarianship" being what they are, the temptation to think it appropriate only for technical service librarians and collection development officers must be resisted. It should be read by all administrators, as a matter of course, but more especially by those public service librarians who deal daily with our students and faculty. The book is based on solid research and on the author's own extensive experience. It has an excellent bibliography; is well or- ganized and graced with clear, direct prose; and might well be seen as a fundamental address to the whole philosophy of research librarianship as we have known it. It is thoughtful and dispassionate to an extent that the reader almost wishes Osburn' had given us a bit, just a bit, of his own gut reaction to what he describes and analyzes so well. Osburn, like Richard De Gennaro, has the gift of saying, and saying well, those things many of us think. His first three chapters, "Federal Government Policy and University Research," "New Patterns of Re- search in the Sciences and Social Sciences," and "New Patterns of Research in the Humanities," are almost worth the price of the book themselves. In these chapters he notes the emphasis on applied research, the impact of vast numbers of federal dollars on the academy, the impact of quantification, the kinds of new faculty development, and the growth of the "invisible college," that informal com- munication network that flourishes whether libraries do or do not. He notes, and docu- ments, the fact that the historical develop- ment of collections was based on the as- sumption that learning, erudition, was an ideal to which faculty subscribed and that new methodologies have made these great, retrospective collections of less and less use to contemporary research. In addressing the humanities, Osburn reminds us that here again outside forces, intellectual and financial, are changing facul- ties. The decline of foreign languages, the maturing of the New Criticism, efforts at quantification of data, the influence of the social sciences on the humanities, and the growth of professionalism among humanists all have had, and will have, an impact on li- braries we have not yet fully grasped. These things will not be received gra- ciously, I think, by the few bookpeople left among us. Osburn does not address them specifically, but the book is permeated with his awareness of the recent past and the at- titudes we embraced in the fat years of the fifties and sixties. He singles none out, but he writes on the assumption that the vast, retrospective col- lections we developed, the ego-building boasting about book dollars we indulged in, and our eager endorsement of what he calls an elitist approach to scholarship, and cer- tainly to collection building (which brings no blush to my cheek!), are part of the present problem that faces us. While it is true that we were but dimly aware, then, of what was happening in our colleges and universities, the fact is that some extraordi- nary collections were acquired, scores of in- stitutions were enriched, and extreme dif- ferences among us in qualities of collections were reduced. The final chapters, "Response to New Patterns of Research" and "New Concepts from a Changed Perspective," remind us of things we might well choose to forget. Os- burn notes that there is presently no appar- ent immediate relationship between the ac- tivities of collection development and the research done at a given institution; that we have failed to recognize changes in the academic environment surrounding us; and that large academic libraries have come to behave quite independently of their constituencies, which, in times of financial stress, can be an unhealthy situation to be in. I regret that Osburn did not give more space to this problem, as it seems to be a major one related, as it is, to what librarians themselves know and do. Too often, librar- ians are somehow removed from what is going on on their campuses; they are still too often inadequately educated (an M.L.S. is no longer enough!); they read too few books and journals in the right fields; they romanticize the faculty and, among those, they too often pick the wrong models in col- lection development work; and they make too few efforts to participate in the total in- tellectual life of the academic community, and so it is no wonder that we can be de- scribed as providing more and more re- sources that are used less and less. Osburn is reasonably sanguine about the present developments in the field, de- velopments that will address some of the problems he raises. He is generally positive about our efforts to use regional and na- tional networks, sophisticated data bases, cooperative collection programs, and new management tools to make our libraries more receptive to the real needs of the academic community, not the needs we perceive them to have or those we think they ought to have. I repeat, an excellent piece of work.- Stuart Forth, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Advances in Librarianship. V. 9. Edited by Michael H. Harris. New York: Academic Pr., 1979. 294p. $21. LC 79-88675. ISBN 0-12-735009-0. State-of-the-art reviews (STOAS) are a means of coping with the branching and twigging characteristic of scholarly publica- tion. Trouble is, STOAS also branch and twig. In the broad, overlapping fields of communications, ' information science, and librarianship there are now three annual and one quarterly (Library Trends) reviews. The three annual ones are: Advances in Li- brarianship (considered here); the Annual Review of Information Science and Technol- ogy (ARIST), now in its fourteenth volume ; and a new one, Progress in Communication Sciences, the first volume of which Mary B. Cassata reviewed in the September 1979 C&RL. Competition is said to result in increased Recent Publications I 14 7 quality. Whether or not this is the cause, Advances in Librarianship has improved. Now under the editorship of Michael Har- ris, who last year stepped up from assistant when Melvin Voigt moved on to found Progress, the current volume of Advances is both timely in content and (relatively) lively in presentation. For large, affiuent libraries supporting major programs in librarianship, information science, and communications, the three ser- vices supplement one another. However, the library forced to choose among the three has a number of permutations and combinations to consider in determining which would best serve the pattern of needs among its clients. In addition to the differing foci implied in the titles of the three services, there are other differences among them and within any given volume of each. ARIST, for example, represents the traditional scientific model, describing in terse, almost tele- graphic, style the findings of the studies A.N.Z.A.AS. CONGRESS Contributions in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Between 400 and 900 indiv- idual papers each year, most not published anywhere else! Now indexed in Chemical Abstracts and APAIS (Australian Public Affairs Information Service). Proceedings of Annual Congresses of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, now available: • from 1970 (42nd Congress) onwards, on diazo microfiche at 24x reduction •with author index (1970-76) •with author, title and KWOC indexes (1977-) • by standing order or singly Contact : Technical Services Librarian University of New South Wales P.O. Box 1, Kensington.N.S.W. Australia . 2033