College and Research Libraries sonnel course, would find it a particularly efficient way to review basic issues in this field; (3) a librarian new to supervision/ personnel work or one in administration (not by choice) who would like to review the field or go into management. (4) Expe- rienced managers have already ''trans- lated'' the field of personnel through their own experiences. It is unlikely that they will find much that is new or innovative here. However, this work may be a perfect way to review one's own knowledge level and to help one realize that current per- sonnel issues and problems (all managers have them) are similar to those other man- agers in the field have experienced. (5) As a graduate of Indiana University Library School, I feel this book would offer other graduates who did not attend during Her- bert White's tenure an insight into the teaching and writing skills of the current dean. (This last plug will hopefully serve in lieu of my paying membership dues to the alumni association.) Personnel management may not be a large part of a library administrator's du- ties but, in most instances, it takes the greatest amount of emotional time and en- ergy to do well. White follows current management-school thought and states that each situation must be analyzed for its unique features. There are no easy, stan- dard rules in personnel management. Be- cause there is never a ''final answer'' to some problems, books like. this continue to be useful and important to our profession.-Sherman Hayes, Solomon R. Baker Library, Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts. Cummings, Martin M. The Economics of Research Libraries. Washington, D. C.: Council on Library Resources, 1986. 216p. $5. LC 86-2321. This book grew out of a seminar on the economics of research libraries, organized by the Council on Library Resources as a series of meetings during 1984 and 1985. Its purpose is to help library directors and university administrators make better use of cost information for strategic planning, budgeting, and forecasting. The book is partly a review of the litera- ture and partly a discussion of current is- Recent Publications 79 THE PAPERS OF JAMES MADISON SECRETARY OF STATE SERIES Volume I: 4 March-31 July 1801 Edited by Robert ]. Brugger, Robert A. Rutland, Robert Rhodes Crout, et al This volume begins an important series of papers in American dip- lomatic and political history. The documents, many printed for the first time, demonstrate how closely Jefferson and Madison worked to- gether in attempting to shape con- sistently republican foreign and do- mestic policies after "the Revolu- tion of 1800." $37.50 Please add $1.50 postage & han- dling. THE PAPERS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON Edited by W. W. Abbot PRESIDENTIAL SERIES Volume I: September 1788- March 1789 Volume 2: April-June 1789 REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERIES Volume 2: September-December 1775 THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF VIRGINIA Box 3608 University Station Charlottesville, VA 22903 80 College & Research Libraries sues in academic library costs and fund- ing, with special attention to the effects of new technology and cooperation on both management and costs. It also presents the results of some studies of costs of oper- ating research libraries and of formal li- brary cooperation programs sponsored by CLR in recent years. The "Summary and Conclusions" chapter is a recap of semi- nar highlights. The book also contains three substantive appendixes: one by Mi- chael Cooper on ''Economic Issues and Trends in Economic Libraries"; one by Mark Cain, reporting on four case studies of university library management and rapid technological change; and an anno- tated bibliography on user fees and library economics by Jane Rosenberg. The value of a good literature review is twofold: first, in the way that it organizes the literature and links publications it gives the reader a map of its subject, orga- nizing the questions and concerns of the field by way of the relationships among publications. Second, it digests the litera- ture, indicating which is the most impor- tant, pointing the reader toward literature relevant to his or her concerns and report- ing the highlights of works that the reader may never see. This book does review a large body of important literature that has not been brought together before. How- ever, it does not succeed very well at ei- ther of a literature review's missions. Its structure is confusing. User fees, for example, are discussed in at least three different places. The succession of sub- jects often seems arbitrary. The overall ef- fect is fragmentation: the reader gets use- ful snippets of information, but loses the overall structure. (The appendix by Cooper is an example of how the book could have been structured more effec- tively.) As a digest of the literature, the compre- hensiveness of the coverage of certain subjects is questionable. For example, the discussion headed ''Cost Accounting in Libraries" refers almost exclusively to at- tempts to determine the costs of library automation-not the same subject. Some of Kantor's important work on academic library costs and economies of scale is cited, but some of his other equally rele- vant work is missed. January 1987 The book suffers some from occasional misstatements and lack of clarity: it seems to need a knowledgeable editor. For exam- ple, a lengthy discussion of "unit costs" never specifies whether that means aver- age or marginal costs. "Cost benefits" is used repeatedly as a noun, a novel con- struction. The cryptic summary of D'Elia and Walsh's path-breaking research on user evaluation of libraries and library ser- vices is inadequate for the reader unfamil- iar with the original. And the author peri- odically interjects editorial comments with which his readers will take issue: for example, he misquotes Herb White as say- ing that in libraries, cost-benefit determi- nation is meaningless and cost accounting pointless, then concludes that "this atti- tude suggests that librarians are irrespon- sible managers and consequently cannot be trusted to handle large budgets.'' The non sequitur is not White's. (This refer- ence was wrong, too.) The book does, however, cover a large body of literature, and, commendably, is not limited exclusively to research li- braries. It is a useful if flawed introduction to some of the major problems and re- search findings on the costs of research li- braries. And the author makes some pro- vocative conjectures about the effect of changing technology on the academic li- brary. This is an area where everyone wishes for a crystal ball; Cummings doesn't have one, but he does raise some interesting possibilities.-Nancy Van House, School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Marketing Instructional Services: Apply- ing Private Sector Techniques to Plan and Promote Bibliographic Instruction. Papers presented at the Thirteenth Li- brary Instruction Conference held at Eastern Michigan University, May 3&4, 1984. Ed. by Carolyn A. Kirkendall. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Published for the Center of Educational Resources, East- ern Michigan Univ., by Pierian, 1986. 157p. $19.50 (ISBN 0-78650-201-X) LC 86-60025. As library instruction moved into the eighties, its advocates and implementors found that they had learned a great deal from the disciplines of education, psy-