College and Research Libraries fession. This book belongs in the offices of library directors, development pro- fessionals, deans and academic adminis- trators, as well as on the shelves of academic an public libraries throughout the country. Many knowledgeable books have been written on fundraising, but Steele and Elder's is by far the most intel- ligent. -Charlene K. Clark, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. The Collection Building Reader. Ed. by Betty-Carol Sellen and Arthur Curley. New York: Neal-Schuman, 1992. 249p. $45 (ISBN 1-55570-092-6). LC 91-48221. This collection reprints thirty-three ar- ticles from the journal Collection Build- ing, founded in 1978 and still published by Neal-Schuman. The articles are grouped into four sections: Management Issues, Selection/Deselection, Evaluation, and Resource Sharing. The preface, which indicates there are only three sections, ap- pears to have been written before the fourth, final section was added. Most of the major issues in collection development are covered in this an- thology. There are articles on collection policies, organization and staffing, selec- tion and deselection, collection evalua- tion, preservation, and resource sharing. The preface notes, however, that since "this is a retrospective reader there is little here on the effects of technology upon the contents of a library." Neverthe- less, this omission lessens the value of the book. The impact of technology upon collection development is simply too profound to ignore. There is a heavy emphasis on the aca- demic library, although the editor cor- rectly notes that this is a reflection of publishing activity rather than editorial bias. Of the thirty-three articles only one concerns school libraries, six focus on public libraries, and the remainder are on academic libraries. Why republish articles that have al- ready appeared in print? The preface states, "The Collection Building Reader brings together some of the most useful and informative articles published in the journal-in a practical one-volume re- source for librarians." Why should a li- Book Reviews 81 brary pay $45 for a paperbound collec- tion of reprinted articles? There are several possibilities: the library never ac- quired the material when first published, the importance of the material justifies having a second copy, or the collection assembles material from several discip- lines in a new way that helps define an emerging, interdisciplinary field. In this case, neither the first nor third reason will apply in many libraries. Col- lection Building is a major, commercially published journal in collection develop- ment and is widely available. This is clearly not a collection in an emerging field. The decision then rests on the im- portance of the articles themselves. Are these articles important enough in the field to justify this republication? Too many either restate what has been said better elsewhere or simply report on local projects that were undoubtedly sig- nificant to the participants but do not add anything new to the literature. A few are based on major research projects. These include Judith Serebnick' s "An Analysis of the Relationship between Book Reviews and the Inclusion of Potentially Controver- sial Books in Public Libraries," Mary Sel- len's survey, ''Book Selection in the College Library: The Faculty Perspective," Judith Feller's "Assessing 'Readiness for Re- source Sharing' in an Academic Library," and Bonita Bryant's "Collection Develop- ment Policies in Medium-Sized Academic Libraries," which is a detailed survey of collection development policy writing. Other articles are useful reviews of the literature, such as Mickey Moskowitz' "Collection Development and the College Library: A State of the Art Review'' and Paul Metz' "Duplication in Library Col- lections: What We Know and What We Need to Know." Others offer practical ad vice for novices from experienced practitioners: Charles D' Aniello's "Bibli- ography and the Beginning Bibliogra- pher'' and "Selection and Acquisition of Library Material in Languages Other Than English: Some Guidelines for Public Librar- ies" by Marie Zielinska and Irena Bell. Collections of reprinted articles should contain full citations to their initial publica- tion: That no such citations are included 82 College & Research Libraries in The Collection Building Reader is a serious flaw. Although timeliness is extremely im- portant in collection development, Zielinska and Bell's article on the selection of foreign- language materials for public libraries, for example, was originally published in 1980 and is updated only by a sh