College and Research Libraries 446 / College 6- Research Libraries • September 1968 presents many of the numerous sources of information outside the immediate library collections which are available to British industry, and which are often overlooked. Descriptions of these sources comprise the major part of the lectures. There is an ex- cellent brief description of the British pat- ent system by F. Newby. Other lectures describe the public technical library serv- ices, commercial information sources, the organization and problems associated with the technical report literature, and special library cooperation in Britain. The last lec- ture, by B. C. Vickery, is an interesting introduction to the problems of organizing an information file. These problems could well be the subject of the next short course, if one is planned. Since the sources cited are primarily British, the usefulness of this book is some- what limited for American industrial infor- mation workers. However, within the stated objectives of the course—that is, as an introduction to British industrial infor- mation work—it fills the need for informa- tion at this level.—Ted Srygley, University of Florida. Health Sciences Librarianship. By Irving Lieberman. Seattle: University of Wash- ington Press, 1967. xii, 216p. To many medical librarians the estab- lished pattern of medical education seems to be one which library education might profitably follow. The characteristics of this pattern are that the teaching is done by practitioners of the art, and an internship follows to consolidate the teaching. With such a model constantly before them, it is not surprising that the medical librarians at an invitational conference on education for health sciences librarianship held in Seattle in September 1967 should find themselves pulling in a different direction from the library educators. Predictably, the special- ist librarians were concerned with cutting out the inessentials to get to the vital con- cern of specialized education, while the generalists inclined to the superimposing of specialized information onto a core com- mon to all library training. Amicability seems to have prevailed, perhaps unfor- tunately. Participation was no doubt a sal- utary experience but the published report includes little that is new except turns of phrase, and will hardly serve, as its editor hoped, as "a framework which any graduate library school might use in developing a program for health sciences librarianship." Dr. Brodman trenchantly states the need for all librarians to develop their own interface with the machine. Dr. Kronick jovially implies that the whole thing may be premature because there is insufficient data about the nature of the work to be done in medical libraries. Dr. Bodemer cor- rectly indicates that the history of medi- cine is one of several developing "social science" areas which will result in increasing demand on medical libraries from people outside the medical community, but he probably exaggerates the importance of medical history in the total picture. Dr. Pings hints at the great gap between theo- rizing and doing in library education when he says that the library school is presently the only institution that has the facility to sponsor and develop new hospital health science educational programs. (That will be the day.) The present state of medical library edu- cational programs is fairly well documented in the proceedings. The conclusions of the meeting, such as they were, are adequately summed up by Dr. Lieberman, and some gratuitous bulk is added by the inclusion of twenty-two pages of biographies of the participants.—G. S. T. Cavanaugh, Duke University. Progress of Libraries in Free India; Be- ing a Symposium on Library Science by Some Eminent and Experienced Li- brarians of India. E d . b y N . B . S e n . New Delhi: New Book Society of India, 1967. 247p. $6. This compilation is similar to the edi- tor's Development of Libraries in New In- dia, which was published in 1965. It con- sists of twenty-eight articles on a variety of topics related to libraries and librarianship in India. Most of the articles are by Indian librarians and teachers of library science who are well known and highly regarded in India, with a few articles by non-librar- ians also included. Unfortunately, the edi- tor has not organized the material in any Book Reviews / 447 way. The articles appear in random se- quence, and there is no index or guide to the subjects covered other than the table of contents at the beginning of the volume. Many of the titles of the articles do not give a clear indication of the subject mat- ter in the articles, so one must leaf through the volume to discover what it contains. As an indication of the variety of sub- jects covered, there are articles on univer- sity libraries, public libraries, teaching li- brary science, library personnel, documen- tation, library buildings, library associa- tions, bibliography, classification, maps, na- tional libraries, art libraries, legal deposit, and the care of books. In spite of the poor arrangement of material, and its diversity, one can learn something about the devel- opment of libraries in India since inde- pendence by reading this book. Even more can be learned about present-day library problems in India and the needs for more rapid progress and stronger support. Many of the writers make concrete proposals for improvements which are badly needed. For example, N. N. Gidwani, D. C. Shar- ma, and Amitabha Chatterjee urge the es- tablishment of a national library at New Delhi. Mr. Gidwani also recommends the creation of an "independent national docu- mentation centre" and a "National Library for social sciences." O. M. Korulla recom- mends that the Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre (INSDOC), which was founded in 1952, "should be estab- lished on a wider basis, with an all-subject coverage." He also suggests that "regional documentation centres with specific sub- ject-coverage and participation of libraries in its area may be useful." While some of the writers seem some- what discouraged by the slow rate of prog- ress, the majority show justifiable pride in what has been accomplished in Indian li- braries since independence. As Bimal Ku- mar Datta writes in his article on "Univer- sity Libraries in India"—"Thus, India is coming in line with the rest of the de- veloped world and giving further evidence of the manner in which her genius can as- similate new and progressive elements and yet retain its continuity and identity."— John R. Russell, American College of Switzerland, Leysin. • •