College and Research Libraries terns" are less well interrelated but are worthwhile in themselves. Attempts to answer the question, "What is information science?" in the first section are not successful probably because there still does not exist an information science in the sense that geology is a science. Nevertheless, this section contains Jesse Shera' s excellent article "Of Librarianship, Documentation and Information Science," which in itself justifies the "Background and Philosophy" section. The inclusion of two of the five papers under "Other Areas" may generate ques- tions of classification, for it would appear that H. Borko's "The Analysis and Design of Information Systems" could have been appropriately placed in the second section and B-A Lipitz' "Information Storage and Retrieval" in the third. Missing from the volume is a paper on networks. Maryann Duggan's widely used "Library Network Analysis and Planning (Lib. NAT)" Journal of Library Automa- tum 2:157-75 (Sept. 1969), could have filled this hiatus, but it may have appeared too late for inclusion since the most recent papers in the volume appeared in 1968.- Frederick G. Kilgour, Ohio College Library Center, Columbus. Introduction to Technical Services for Li- brary Technicians. Marty Bloomberg and G. Edward Evans. Littleton, Colo.: Li- braries Unlimited, Inc., 1971. 175p. $7.50. The authors of this book aim "to pro- vide the nonprofessional (library techni- cian, clerk, or part-time help) with a sound background in the basic functions carried out in the technical services area of a library." They have obviously worked in technical services and one of them, Evans, has been a serials librarian and a cataloger. In addition to a solid knowledge of li- brary procedures they also show a good grasp of publishing activities. If Tauber's Technical Services in Libraries is aimed at library school students, Introduction to Technical Services for Library Technicians provides nonprofessionals a close, low- level look at all aspects of technical ser- vices. It does present theory but the major emphasis is on accepted techniques as the authors take one on a step-by-step progress Recent Publications I 241 through the labyrinths of technical services. The book is well organized, the sen- tences simple and easy to read. The whole approach is straightforward and the ex- planation of complex rules is surprisingly lucid and to the point. There are many tables and illustrations of forms and catalog cards. This book will undoubtedly be used largely by people who are not professionals and they will probably follow it the way a neophyte cook follows a cookbook, i.e., as closely as possible. There are many helpful hints in the charts and figures but unfortunately, a few of the examples leave something to be desired. Since the examples furnished will probably be used as models, exactly as shown, they should be correct. For exam- ple, one finds the sentence, "The main en- try would be ·wynar.' " And again, about another book, ·~he entry, therefore is ·ceorge Orwell.' " If the main entry is en- closed in quotation marks the assumption is that it is the full, correct main entry. This being true, in the first instance the main entry should be "Wynar, Bohdan S.," and in the second, "Orwell, George." This would be no problem to an experi- enced librarian but to a beginning library technician it might be an embarrassing pitfall. The binding and physical makeup are good and the book appears sturdy. As a minor irritant one finds the type used in the figures to be the same as in the text in many instances and, since they are sep- arated by very little space, it is sometimes difficult to tell where a figure ends and the text begins. Some figures, "Technical Ser- vice Activities" for instance, are unnum- bered whereas others, "Cataloging Activ- ities" for instance, are numbered. There are a few errors missed by the proofreaders but none of any consequence. The book is full of "tips" to library workers. The authors frequently give back- ground information in addition to explain- ing the bare bones of a particular proce- dure. In explaining this practice the au- thors, while discussing the publishing busi- ness, say, "While the librarian must have this knowledge in order to operate effec- tively, the technician and clerk could op- erate without this knowledge. However, they probably will operate more effective- 242 I College & Research Libraries • May 1972 ly when they do know something about publishing." As a result of this fleshing-out of basic material the book will undoubted- ly prove very useful to · graduate library school students as well as to library tech- nicians and clerks. There are several tables at appropriate places in the book setting forth detailed listings of staff activities and responsibilities. This should prove helpful to supervisors writing job descriptions or organizing or reorganizing a library. The book also con- tains a detailed discussion and practical evaluation of the primary acquisition tools such as BIP, PW, CBI, NUC, PTLA, etc. This book will be very useful to a be- ginning librarian or library technician as a picture of what actually happens from the time an order is placed until the book is shelved. In addition, there are probably many practicing librarians who would ben- efit from the review this book offers. And finally, it will undoubted~y prove very use- ful to schools with library technician ·courses and to libraries with in-house-train- ing programs. All in all it is an excellent book.-Ashby ]. Fristoe, Unive1·sity of Ha- waii. LIST 1971: Library and Information Sci- ence Today. Paul Wasserman, manag- ing ed. New York: Science Associates/ International, 1971. 397p. $25.00. This publication is the outgrowth of a seminar begun at the University of Mary- land in the summer of 1969. A group of students and faculty met to discuss the problems of developing a formal mecha- nism for gathering information about work in progress in library and information sci- ence. The data gathered by the seminar participants form the basis for LIST 1971. Simply stated, the volume is a directory of research and innovation in library and information science. It is similar to the National Science Foundation's now defunct Current Research and Development in Sci- entific Documentation, but is broader in scope and is not limited to activities cited in the published literature. Listed for each project are the principal investigators, the title of the project, the name and address of the institution at which the work is being performed, the approximate beginning and ending dates, and a short description of about 100 to 200 words. References to published literature are omitted. To facilitate browsing the en- tries are arranged in a classified manner by broad subject. Indexes of principal in- vestigators, organizations, geographic loca- tions, funding sources, titles, and subjects and keywords provide adequate alternate means of access to the text. As a directory of research and innova- tion, LIST 1971 is not successful. Although the volume claims to be international in scope, the emphasis is primarily upon the United States and Western Europe. There is only one enhy for the Soviet Union, one for Australia, and three for all of South America. The coverage is not comprehen- sive, even for projects originating in the United States. Several programs prominent- ly reported in the published literature are omitted from the volume. Undoubtedly many of the omissions result from the de- pendence upon gathering information by questionnaire. The projects listed in the publication are broad and varied. They range from the scientific to the sociological, from computer- aided indexing and abstracting to outreach programs for the disadvantaged. Although the focus is supposedly on research and innovation, it is sometimes difficult to dis- cern from the text what is particularly in- novative or experimental about a program. The production of a KWIC index, for which several projects are cited, is an activity which in 1971 can scarcely be classified as either research or innovation. Browsing through the volume, one is presented with a fascinating mosaic of the current activities and interests of the li- brary profession. The publication will thus be useful in the library school research methods course to instill in the student an appreciation for what constitutes research (or what passes for research) in library and information science. The price, unfor- tunately, places LIST 1971 beyond the means of most library science students.- Howard Pasternack, University of Chicago. Hutchins, W. J., L. J. Pargeter, and W. L. Saunders. The Language Barrier; A Study in Depth of the Place of Foreign Language Materials in the Research Ac- tivity of an Academic Community. She£-