ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


213

Publications
RECEIVED

(S elected item s will be review ed in future 
issues of College & Research Libraries.)

•  T he ALA W orld Encyclopedia o f L ibrary 
and Information Services (ALA, 1980, $85) is a 
new  on e -v o lu m e  g u id e  to lib ra rian sh ip . The 
volume is alphabetically arranged, and the open­
ing article appropriately is “Academic Libraries,” 
with Beverly P. Lynch, Billy R. Wilkinson, Wil­
liam H. W ebb, C. James Schmidt, Richard J. 
Talbot, Elaine Sloan, and Clyde C. Walton as au­
thors of its several sections. A new feature in the 
encyclopedia is a “parallel index” in which index 
entries are shown in the margin throughout the 
volume rather than as a separate section at the 
end.

•  Random Recollections o f an Anachronism is 
the title of Keyes D. Metcalfs autobiography, the 
first volume of which has b een  published and 
traces his career through 1937 when he became 
library director at Harvard. Published by Readex 
Books. Price: $14.95.

•  March o f Library Science, with V. Benkatap- 
paiah as general editor, is a festschrift honoring 
the Indian library science educator, P. H. Kaula. 
The contents cover a wide range of subjects, with 
an international cast of authors, including, from 
the U.S., Edward G. Holley, Nasser Sharify, Jes­
se H. Shera, James B. Childs, John T. Thomas, 
D oris C ru g e r D ale, D ana Roth, Johannes L. 
Dewton, Frederic R. Hartz, Martin Sable, and 
John F. Harvey. Available in the U.S. from Ad­
vent Books, Inc., 141 E. 44th St., Suite 809, 
New York, NY 10017. Price: $37.50.

•  The Conant Report: A Study of the Educa­
tion o f Librarians, by Ralph W. Conant (MIT 
Press, 1980, $17.50), is described as “the first 
comprehensive examination of library education 
since the Williamson Report of 1921 and 1923.” 
The author of this ALA-sponsored study is presi­
dent of Unity College in Maine.

•  Librarians as Professionals: The Occupa­
tions Impact on Library Work Arrangements, by 
William Joseph Reeves (Lexington Books, 1980, 
$19.95), explores the “paradoxical relationship be­
tween the standards of librarianship and library 
service established by library associations, on the 
one hand, and conditions of work as they exist in 
most libraries, on the other.” Its objective “was 
to identify circumstances and conditions that fos­
tered occupational control over work in organiza­
tional settings.”

•  Aslib Occasional Publication No. 23, Career 
Patterns and the Occupational Image, by Mar­
garet Slater (1980, $22.50), presents a study of 
the profession of librarianship that focuses on 
career patterns of librarians, their mobility, and

their image—including public image, self-image, 
and employer image.

•  Edward R. Johnson and Stuart R. Mann’s 
Organization Development fo r  Academic Librar­
ies: An Evaluation o f  the Management Review 
and Analysis Program (Greenwood, 1980, $19.95) 
analyzes the benefits and lim itations of library 
self-assessment, concentrating on the experience 
of MRAP. The book shows the impact of MRAP 
on ten libraries in which it was applied.

•  The Proceedings from  the 2nd Southeastern 
Conference on Approaches to Bibliographic In­
struction, March 22-23, 1979, held at the Col­
lege of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, 
have recently been published. Cerise Oberman- 
Soroka is the editor, and the volume includes the 
nine papers that were presented. Available from 
th e  T rea su re r, C ollege of C harleston L ibrary 
Associates, Robert Scott Small Library, Charles­
ton, SC 29401. Price: $7. Make check payable to: 
College of Charleston Foundation, Inc.

•  Gerald Jahoda and Judith Schiek Braunagel’s 
The Librarian and Reference Queries: A System­
atic Approach (Academic Press, 1980, $12) is in­
tended to provide a framework for a “decision­
making model of the reference process” and is 
designed as a text for library school students.

•  Donald Davinson’s Reference Service (K. G. 
Saur, 1980, $20) p rovides a sum m ary of this 
aspect of librarianship from a British point of 
view.

•  A new volume in the Clive Bingley-K. G. 
Saur Outlines of Modern Librarianship series is
D. A. Kemp’s Current Awareness Services. Price: 
$10.

•  Australian Official Publications, edited by 
D. H. B o rc h ard t (M e lb o u rn e: L ongm an 
Cheshire, 1979, A$10.50), presents “an overview 
of the publications which currently emanate from 
the th ree  tiers of adm inistrative authority that 
govern Australia: the federal governm ent, the 
state governments, and the municipal or shire or 
county governments.”

Elected Head Librarians

I would app rec ia te  hearing from anyone 
fam iliar w ith co lleg es and u n iv e rs itie s  at 
which the faculty elect library managers. I am 
interested in identifying all such institutions 
for a study of governance in academic libraries 
that have elected library heads ra th e r than 
appointed ones. Leonard G rundt, Professor, 
Library Departm ent, Nassau Community Col­
lege, Garden City, NY 11530.



214

•  The Annual Report o f the American Rare, 
Antiquarian, and Out-of-Print Book Trade, 19781 
1979, edited by Denis Carbonneau, “is the first 
of a projected series whose purpose is to give a 
p icture of the antiquarian book trade for the 
year.” It is divided into six sections: auctions and 
auctioneering; review of specialized areas; librar­
ies and librarianship; professional associations; 
conservation of material; and trends in bibliogra­
phy. Available from: BCAR Publications, P.O. 
Box 50, Cooper Station, New York, NY 10003. 
Price: $15.95 cloth, $9.95 paper, plus $1 postage 
and handling.

•  R. E. Bellamy’s Private Presses ćr Publishing 
in England Since 1945 (K. G. Saur, 1980, $33) 
has three objectives: “to examine the varied na­
ture of private publishing and printing presses in 
England; to describe the way in which they have 
developed during the last thirty years; and to dis­
cover what their relationships are with the com­
mercial printing and publishing industries.”

•  Michael Lane and Jeremy Booth’s Books and

Publishers: Commerce against Culture in Post­
war Britain (Lexington Books, 1980, $16.95) 
deals “with the decisive issue book publishers 
have today and always ultim ately faced: which 
books to publish” and then tries “to establish how 
changing external constraints and pressures in­
teract with the inner workings of publishing in­
stitutions and what consequences this is having 
both for publishers themselves and the world of 
culture they serve.”

•  Scarecrow’s newest addition to its Great Bib­
liographers se ries is n u m b e r 5: Roy Stokes’ 
a p p reciation of Michael S adleir, 1888-1957 
(Scarecrow, 1980, $8.50).

•  A Study of Library Cooperatives, Networks,
and Demonstration Projects, by Ruth J. Patrick, 
Joseph Casey, and Carol M. Novalis (K. G. Saur, 
1980, $39), is a two-volume report evaluating 
“ the im pact and e ffectiveness of two USOE 
administered grant Programs to develop and im­
prove library and information services”: HEA II- 
B and Title III of LSCA. ■■

Calendar
The following continuing education activities 

and meetings have been listed with ACRL’s Con­
tinuing Education Clearinghouse. If your orga­
nization is sponsoring an activity that you think 
may be of interest to ACRL mem bers, please 
send the pertinent details to the ACRL Office, 50
E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

July
29-30—Online Searching: Online Bibliographic 

and Information Systems, workshop, School of 
Library and Inform ation Sciences, Brigham 
Young University, Provo, Utah. Fee: $99. Con­
tact: Library Workshops, Room 242 HRCB, 
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 
or call Gary Bascom at (801) 378-4853.

31-August 1— Statistics: Statistical Approach to 
Solving Library Problems, workshop, School of 
Library and Inform ation Sciences, Brigham 
Young University, Provo, Utah. Fee: $99. Con­
tact: see July 29-30 listing above.

August
10-14— Book Trade: The Out-of-Print and Anti­

quarian Book M arket, sem inar/w orkshop. 
Graduate School of Librarianship and Informa­
tion Management, University of Denver, Col­
orado. Fee: $215. Contact: Anne Mathews, 
C o n tin u in g  E d u ca tio n  D ire c to r, G ra d u ate

School of Librarianship and Information Man­
agem ent, U niversity of D enver, U niversity 
Park, Denver, CO 80208; (303) 753-2557.

September
13-15— Mental Health: Mental Health Librarians 

and Bibliography Roundtable, allied groups of 
the Hospital and Community Psychiatry Insti­
tu te , com bined m eeting-w orkshop, Boston 
Sheraton H o tel, B oston, M assachusetts. 
Theme: “The Patient Where? The Role of the 
L ibrarian in P a tie n t E d u c a tio n .” C ontact: 
Lucile S. Stark, Director, W estern Psychiatric 
I n s titu te  and C linic L ibrary, 3811 O ’Hara 
Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261; (412) 624-2378.

15-19—Archives: International Congress on Ar­
chives, London Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, Lon­
don, England. Themes: “The Uses of Archives; 
The ICA, Its Achievements and Its F u tu re .” 
Fee: £28. Contact: International Congress on 
A rchives, IX S e c re ta ria t, c/o C onference 
Organizing Division, Peter Peregrinus, Ltd., 2 
Savoy Hill, London WC2R OBL, United King­
dom.

30-O ctober 3— Archives: Society of American 
Archivists, annual meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Theme: “The Agenda for the 80s.” Contact: 
Society of American Archivists, 330 S. Wells, 
Suite 810, Chicago, IL 60606; (312) 922-0140.

■■