College and Research Libraries BOOK REVIEWS Management and Costs of Technical Proc- esses: A Bibliographical Review, 1876- 1969. By Richard M. Dougherty and Lawrence E. Leonard. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1970. 145p. $5.00. This bibliographical review of nearly one hundred years of technical processing lit- erature is a very useful reference tool for the librarian and library science student engaged in selecting and evaluating man- agement and cost techniques. The litera- ture search was undertaken to discover pos- sible methodological approaches for cost analysis in the Colorado Academic Librar- ies Book Processing Center Project. The authors, Richard M. Dougherty and Law- rence E. Leonard, were then the Principal Investigator and Project Director, respec- tively. "The Evolution of Library Cost Studies," a chapter preceding the bibliography, doc- uments the development of cost study methodologies for the technical processes employed by librarians from the early days of Dewey until the introduction of the com- puter. A noteworthy observation made by the authors is that although the employ- ment of multiple methodological tech- niques to study a problem represents a de- velopment of the sixties, most of the better cost studies published in the sixties were based on the usually imprecise diary rec- ord. Publications listed in the bibliography include those which present ( 1) specific technical processes procedures, e.g., "cata- loging, bibliographical searching, serials handling," (2) cost information, and (3) techniques of analysis, design, and evalua- tion of technical processes procedures. The compilers attempted to include all items 148/ Recent Publications relating to technical processes cost data, but not all material on systems analysis and design. Deliberately excluded were materials concerned with business prob- lems and industrial engineering. The top- ic of automation was largely omitted, but a fourteen-item bibliography composed mostly of bibliographies relating to the analysis and design of automated systems is inc.luded. The compilers found that a surprising number of articles have not been listed in any standard bibliographical tool, a point which attests to the value of this bibliography. The 853 unannotated entries with mul- tiple listings in a single dictionary arrange- ment under subject headings include 558 different items. Use of the book is facilitat- ed by the "see" and "see also" references and the scope notes which define certain headings. Symbols indicate ( l) items espe- cially recommended by the compilers; ( 2) 182 items which include explanations of methodological techniques used-diary record, motion and time study, sampling techniques, mathematical models, question- naires, interviews; and ( 3) citations not examined by the compilers. Access to the entries is obtained through a table of con- tents which lists the subject headings, and through an author index. The general format and the clarity of the page layout make the book easy to use. There are a few misprints in the text as well as errors in the alphabetical ar- rangement of the subject headings. This bibliography and the introductory commentary not only provide sources of methodological techniques in costing tech- nical processes but also serve to motivate further attention to this activity on the part of the profession. The work is of value to any type of library and is essential to library school libraries. Management and Costs of Technical Processes lays substan- tial groundwork toward fulfilling the com- pilers' prediction that "the seventy-year cost information drought will end."-Flor- ence E. DeHart, Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia. The Southern Historical Collection: A Guide to Manuscripts. By Susan B. Blos- ser and Clyde N. Wilson, Jr. Chapel Hill, The Southern Historical Collection, Uni- versity of North Carolina Library, 1970. 252, 48p. $7.00. The Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina does not col- lect books, pamphlets, or newspapers; its sole concern is manuscripts. Since its foun- dation in 1930, with Professor J. G. de Roulac Hamilton as director, the Collection has concentrated on the preservation of southern materials, primarily private pa- pers, and upon the organization and de- scription of these resources to make them readily available for research. Dr. Hamil- ton, manuscripts collector non pareil, crossed and recrossed the South many times in his faithful Ford searching for manu- scripts in private hands and persuading owners that their treasures belonged in the Southern Historical Collection. If necessary, Dr. Hamilton pursued descendants of prominent Southerners beyond southern boundaries to achieve his purpose. His suc- cessor, Dr. James W. Patton, under whose direction the Collection more than doubled in size between 1948 and 1967, and the present director, Dr. J. Isaac Copeland, have continued the policy of concentrating upon southern materials of interest to his- torians and other students of the South. Since publication in 1941 of the first guide to the Southern Historical Collection, the size of the Collection's holdings has more than quadrupled. This handsome, well-designed, and well-edited, new, paper- bound Guide supplants the earlier one, of- fering succinct but adequate descriptions of some five million pieces organized into nearly 4,000 groups of papers. Is there a need for guides to manuscript collections now that the National Union Catalog of Manuscripts has undertaken to Recent Publications I 149 make known the resources of every manu- script repository in the United States? The answer of any serious scholar would be ''yes." Of necessity, the NUC-M sets stan- dards which exclude single items (and even small groups unless they are lumped to- gether), groups of microforms, and typed copies. Therefore a number of important manuscripts in the Southern Historical Col- lection are not listed in NUC-M. Also, the shape and scope, the personality, if you please, of a special collection can scarcely by discerned from perusal of the NUC-M. Such items as Group 672, a record of slave births kept in the margins of a Georgia planter's medical manual, or Group 1825, records of the Matrimony Creek Primitive Baptist Church (1776-1814), or Group 1093, consisting of a letter from Isaac L. Baker in 1807 giving family news from Philadelphia and describing the recent stu- dent rebellion at Princeton are not impor- tant in themselves, but seeing them juxta- posed with larger, more substantial groups of family correspondence, diaries, and legal and business papers gives one a sense of the range and depth of this particular Collec- tion devoted to a region endlessly fascinat- ing to historians. In format, the Guide is straightforward and self-explanatory. Standard abbrevia- tions are used, including the U.S. Post Of- fice's two-letter zip code designations for states. The abbreviations are made plain in a table immediately preceding the body of the text. Groups are arranged numerically by accession number through 3901. Includ- ed are the formal name (in bold face) , in- clusive dates, approximate number of items or linear feet of shelf space, description of chief persons, places, and topics, and a ci- tation to related groups. In the left margin, under group number, notation is made of the state or states most prominent in that group. Frequently two or three states ap- pear, often more, e.g., beside the papers of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, 1934- 1967, one finds: AR, MO, TX, LA, FL, CA, DC. An appendix immediately follow- ing the main group descriptions lists a doz- en groups of manuscripts (including 18~ feet of Thomas Wolfe papers) in the North Carolina Collection of the University Li- brary.