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which the author feels might deter union-
ization if they performed some of a union's 
functions. He adds, however, "ALA is en-
couraging other organizations to assume its 
role as spokesman for the nation's librari-
ans." This pithy statement demands a chal-
lenge-if any ALA champion is awake to 
make it. 

This book deserves special recognition 
on several scores. It pioneers an approach 
to collective bargaining among librarians 
-not the only approach, but a useful one 
which will probably now be repeated from 
library school to library school. Moreover, 
it has drawn on fields of knowledge outside 
of traditional library science to a degree 
that presages future effects of collective 
bargaining on the isolation of the profes-
sion.-]ohn W. Weatherford, Central Mich-
igan University, ·Mount Pleasant. 

Thomson, Sarah · . Katharine. Interlibrary 
Loan Policies Directory. Chicago: Amer-
ican Library Assn., 1975. 486p. $7.95. 
(LC 74-32182) (ISBN 0-8389-0197-2) 
If there is any one person to whom the 

current generation of interlibrary loan li-
brarians has reason to be grateful, it is Sal-
ly Thomson. · He! Columbia dissertation 
(later published as an ACRL . monograph) 
was the first substantial study of interli-
brary loan transactions in this country. The 
Interlibrary Loan Procedure Manual, which 
she published in 1970, makes it possible for 
the least experienced librarian . to properly 
execute interlibrary loan requests. Her most 
recent contr:ibution, the Interlibrary Loan 
Policies Directory, will in the future save 
numerous individual librarians the work of 
compiling the same data. 

The Directory, arranged by NUC code, 
contains information on the lending policies 
and practices . of .276 American academic, 
public, government, and special libraries. 
The libraries selected generally lend 250 
or more volumes a year to out-of-state li-
braries. Information given for each institu-
tion includes addresses of interlibrary loan 
and photoduplication services, photocopy 
practices and charges, and lending policies 
for periodicals · and other serials, micro-
forms , government documents, . dissertations 
and theses, genealogies, and technical re-
ports. The -information was . supplied by in-
terlibrary loan librarians . following a de-

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tailed form provided by Dr. Thomson. 
The only similar work is the Directory 

of Reprographic Services, issued by the Re-
production of Library Materials Section of 
the Resources and Technical Services Divi-
sion of ALA, which contains information 
on lending policies for dissertations and 
periodicals as well as information on photo-
duplication services. But · the RLMS direc-
tory, because of its lack of standards for in-
clusion, its inconvenient format, and its 
lack of detail, has not been very useful to 
interlibrary loan librarians. 

As long as libraries fail to agree on lend-
ing policies and practices, a directory such 
as Dr. Thomson's will be a necessity. The 
individual interlibrary loan librarian will 
still need to collect and compile some data 
since not all libraries could be included in 
this new directory. It does provide, how-
ever, a very substantial common core to 
which each library can add its own supple-
mentary list. 

In order to make it easier to add other 
entries and also to insert changes as they 
occur, it would be helpful if the next edi-
tion were issued in a more flexible format. 
It is undoubtedly too much to hope that 
this public display of their failure to agree 
will motivate librarians to reexamine their 
policies and make the publication of future 
editions unnecessaryl-Marjorie · Karlson, 
Head, Reference Department, University of 
Massachusetts at Amherst. 

Daily, Jay E. Cataloging Phonorecordings: 
Problems and Possibilities. (Practical Li-
brary and Information Science, vol. 1) 
New York: Marcel De~ker, Inc. , 1975. 
172p. $13.75. (LC 73.-90723) (ISBN 0-
8247-6196-0) 
When the Anglo-American Cataloging 

Rules (AACR) were published in 1967, 
Jay Daily evaluated Part III, "Non-Book 
Materials" (see his "Selection, Processing, 
Storage of Non-Print Materials," Library 
Trends 16:283-99 (Oct. 1967)). He was not 
at all pleased with the. new code and sub-
sequently issued his own code for dealing 
with nonprint materials. Some of his ideas 
can quite properly be described as radical 
and controversial. On the other hand, his 
criticisms of AACR represent something 
more than a personal idiosyncrasy. If Part 
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430 I College & Research Libraries • September 1975 

likely that we would have seen the publi-
cation of four nonbook media cataloging 
codes, all intended to be working substi-
tutes for AACR, and all produced or en-
dorsed by professional organizations. There 
is something very, very wrong about 
AAC R' s treatment of materials other than 

· books. Daily certainly understands this, but 
whether or not he has found the underly-
ing causes of the problems is another ques-
tion. 

In this, his latest opus, Daily claims that 
he does not "advocate a method of catalog-
ing," but intends to offer "a means of un-
derstanding what the possibilities are" (p. 
vii) . It is the first title in a series called 
"Practical Library and Information Sci-
ence," and the reader should not expect to 
find any searching examinations of theo-
retical problems. Nor will one find infor-
mation dealing with recordings other than 
modem LP and tape formats. For problems 
and possibilities of the sort involved in ref-
erence and archival collections, the reader 
must look elsewhere. 

Daily's approach is based on the "unit-
entry system," which he sets up in opposi-
tion to the "main-entry system" of AACR. 
He systematically discusses the bibliograph-
ical elements in his system, which are laid 
out in ten fields: (I) title, (2) author, com-
poser, (3) performer, ( 4) producer, (5) 
identifying numbers, ( 6) physical descrip-
tion , ( 7) distributor's series number, ( 8) 
additional description, ( 9) contents, and 
( 10) points of access or tracings. The 
whole approach is based on the assumption 
that technical assistants can be trained to 
do original cataloging of sound recordings. 

The work does not presume much on the 
part of the reader. Statements such as these 
are typical: "Phonodiscs are sold in card-
board envelopes sometimes called a 'rec-
ord sleeve.' ... There is an attention-get-
ting picture on one side and notes on the 
other" ( p.l3); "Singers of opera and other 
serious music have a definite voice range" 
(p.69); "This phonorecording was made 
in Germany and the label is, naturally, in 
German" (p.71); "Operas, some symphonic 
works, operettas, musical comedies, and 
ballet scores have definite titles, given by 
the composer to the work he writes, or at 
least the librettist" [sic] (p.41). The ulti-
mate authority on all matters of music is 

the Schwann catalog, which is described 
as "the only essential reference tool for the 
cataloger" (p.xvi). Uniform titles are de-
fined as titles "taken from a list employed 
by the cataloger in order to provide a uni-
form approach to the contents of phonore-
cordings" ( p.36) . These statements, which 
speak for themselves, suggest the general 
flavor of Daily's style and the depth of his 
thinking. His work can be recommended 
only to those librarians who believe that the 
cataloging of music is a simple process that 
can be left to technical assistants, ama-
teurs, and people who know nothing about 
music and are not willing to learn anything 
about it.-Gordon Stevenson, Associate 
Professor, State University of New York at 
Albany. 

Grove, Pearce S., ed. Nonprint Media in 
Academic Libraries. ( ACRL Publications 
in Librarianship, no. 34) Chicago: Amer-
ican Library Assn., 1975. 239p. $10.00. 
(LC 74-23972) (ISBN 0-8389-0153-0) 
Non print Media in Academic Libraries 

is both a guide and a state-of-the-art survey 
for academic librarians needing information 
on the selection, classification, and catalog-
ing of nonprint materials. The work pro-
vides a general overview of the history of 
the use of nonprint materials in chapters on 
bibliographic organization, selection and ac-
quisition, and standards. Individual chap-
ters are devoted to the problems associat-
ed with the development of collections in 
various nonprint formats. The types of me-
dia included are sound recordings, slides, 
film, filmstrips, maps, and photographs. 
Each chapter is authored by a person with 
experience and knowledge in the topical 
area. 

Any guide to nonprint materials in aca-
demic libraries is useful and welcome. Nev-
ertheless, this one is somewhat incomplete, 
out of date, and of uneven quality. 

The most conspicuous lack is a chapter 
on videocassettes, the fastest growing for-
mat in many academic libraries. The re-
viewers do not agree with the statement 
that these materials "require more expertise 
and research than is available to librarians." 
Many institutions have already had to de-
cide between offerings of videocassettes and 
motion picture films of the same titles, and 
a number of them have begun the develop-