College and Research Libraries Recent Publications BOOK REVIEWS Leighton, Phillip D., and David C. We- ber. Planning Academic and Research Li- brary Buildings. Chicago: American Li- brary Assn., 1986. 2d ed. 630p. $60 (ISBN 0-8389-3320-3). LC 85-11207. Anyone who has undertaken the plan- ning of an academic research library dur- ing the past twenty years would probably not have considered the task without a copy of Keyes Metcalf's Planning Academic and Research Library Buildings at hand. The widely accepted reputation and authority of this work in the field of library planning made Leighton and Weber's challenge in undertaking the writing of a second edi- tion formidable. Leighton and Weber have organized this edition around the broad outlines of the planning process. Material on specific planning topics, to which Metcalf devoted the first two-thirds of his work, is folded into the planning process, with individual topics appearing whenever they are relevant to a particular planning stage. For the reader who is new to library planning, the broad range of specific planning topics that pop up at al- most every step in the process may seem confusing and somewhat frustrating. On the other hand, it is this willingness to let the unavoidable complexity of library planning be visible that is one of the au- thors' most significant contributions. Those familiar with Metcalf will proba- bly still miss the convenience of the topical discussions about book stacks, traffic pat- terns, reader accommodations, etc. The appendixes still offer a wealth of specific information organized topically. In addi- tion, the thorough indexing greatly re- duces the possibility of missing important pieces of topical information that appear in the broader planning discussions. This edition also includes a wealth of useful and informative illustrations. Planning an academic research library is intrinsically a complex and tangled mat- ter. Leighton and Weber have done a com- mendable job of discussing the planning process from start to finish, allowing the complexity to show while bringing an im- pressive degree of order and clarity to their presentation. Anyone setting out on a first effort at planning the new construc- tion or the renovation of an academic li- brary building will be well served by this book. Those of us who have spent a few years engaged in library planning and are confident that we ''know Metcalf'' also owe it to ourselves to give this book a thor- ough reading. The book will quickly establish its place in the working collections of library plan- ners. Though this project may have begun as an effort to update Metcalf, what has re- sulted is not only a major revision but also a significant addition to the literature of academic library planning. The degree to which this work advances the literature of library planning is understated by calling it a second edition. It is fully capable of standing on its own merits and should, in time, be known with equal respect as "Leighton and Weber."-Donald G. Kel- sey, University of Minnesota Libraries, Min- neapolis. Research Libraries: The Past 25 Years, the Next 25 Years. Papers for a Festschrift Honoring L. A. Anderson. Ed. by Taylor E. Hubbard. Boulder, Colo.: Colorado Associated Univ. Pr., 1986.$25 (ISBN 0- 87081-163-0). LC 86-2327. 265 266 College & Research Libraries Generally, festschrifts in librarianship are interesting conglomorations of papers by acquaintances of the person being hon- ored, gathered over time by an editor, most often useful tutorials in the authors' fields, and not altogether intellectually stimulating. One can usually count on them for state-of-the-art presentations in a broad field. This one is different. It is actually the proceedings of a festschrift ceremony held at Colorado State University, where An- derson was director of libraries from 1957 until his recent retirement. The speakers were few: those well associated with re- search librarianship, as well as colleagues in various relationships with Anderson. The ceremony was relatively brief, hence the proceedings can be read quite quickly. And there was a theme, so there is coher- ence among the papers, some of which are expository, some of which are analytical. All present the personal views of the au- thors. -Shirley Echleman' s brief opening paper sets forth a statement of some rather broad questions that face the research library community as it moves from the tradi- tional to the new information age. A re- view of the proceedings of the Association of Research Libraries for the past few years will extend her analysis but will leave the basic questions open for devel- opment. Forrest Carhart, retired executive director of the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency, now a resident of Colorado, reports in some detail how the New York State Three-Rs program developed into a suc- cessful array of cooperative activities among New York City's hundreds of large and small research libraries. The presenta- tion is suggestive, but not analytical. The remainder of the volume consists of five papers from people now or until re- cently associated directly with the opera- tions of research libraries and contains the few brief, but cogent, analyses and com- mentaries. Ralph Ellsworth clearly makes the case for the modular library building as the only way to accommodate the kinds of changes that research libraries might have to make to match demands of the new information age. Richard Dougherty May 1987 faces the inevitability of the substitution of electronic and other forms of access to li- brary collections and their contents for open-shelf browsing and advises us to be- gin now to help scholars to adapt. David Starn quickly analyzes the collection de- velopment and preservation problems of research libraries and describes in general the workings of the Research Libraries Group's cooperative programs in these ar- eas. His apt view that access to informa- tion about collection goals, collecting strengths, and items selected for preserva- tion is one of the keys to the potential suc- cess of such cooperation adds strength to the arguments for new methods of access of others in this volume. Richard McCoy's personal views of re- search library problems in providing ac- cess to information in and about library collections are based on his years as presi- dent of the Research Libraries Group. He makes a most clear analysis of the similari- ties and differences among various net- work activities (e.g., OCLC and RLG) and argues well for interaction, integration, and reduction of conflict among them on behalf of the scholarly user. Finally, G. Edward Evans of the Harvard University Library staff and formerly a faculty mem- ber at both UCLA and the University of Denver, speculates on the nature of there- search library in the year 2010, giving us three scenarios of potential development and analyzing information access and management problems in each case. All in all, this is a most enjoyable, though brief volume. Most of those in management positions of research li- braries have already thought about one or another of the issues, and much has been written about them. It is useful, neverthe- less, to pause briefly to read these words of a few of our major agents for change in research librarianship.-Russell Shank, University Libraries, University of California, . Los Angeles. Schauer, Bruce P. The Economics of Manag- ing Library Service. Chicago: American Library Assn., 1986. 278p. $49 (ISBN 0- 8389-0453-X). LC 86-14186. Detailed, academic approaches to li- brary budgets and economics are being