College and Research Libraries hard to implement. A little looking, if we would but try it, will show also that if the idea is worth anything, it has been around for a long time. The value of the present volume, and of some of the other writing in this centennial year, is that it might help to thwart that pervasive tendency to as- sume that everything is new under the sun. i Here is William Frederick Poole's excel- lent reminder, made in 1893, of the essen- tial nature of library instruction for college students. Here is a discussion of the circula- tion of tennis racquets from public libraries in 1894. Here is a prediction of a quarter- century ago that interlibrary loan will col- <'1 lapse of its own weight unles·s a process is developed for reimbursing the lender. Here is E. C. Richardson calling in 1890 for "a central, national, lending library of the least frequently needed books," and here is Har- vard's President Eliot in 1902 repeating his earlier suggestion that the library commu- r- nity needed two or three joint storage re- positories "for books out of use," and Fred- erick Crunden advocating business-like practices in libraries in 1887, and Liberty Hyde Bailey pleading for library service to rural populations in 1908. And many more. As a general matter, this reviewer does not like anthologies, but he feels that the present one is somewhat exceptional in sev- eral ways: ( 1) it does, after all, observe our centennial; ( 2) the selection is excellent (although every library historian who reads it will doubtless miss at least one old friend) ; ( 3) the introductory headnotes are useful; and ( 4) the topical grouping of the selections is well done. "" This collection anthologizes articles only; all but one of the forty selections are from journals. There are seventeen articles from the Library I ournal, although only five of them appeared in the last seventy years. The Library Quarterly is represented by ten selections, of which eight appeared before .,.. 1952. Three of the four pieces from College & Research Libraries were published in the last fifteen years. American Libraries and the Wilson Library Bulletin each have two entries, and the balance are from other sources. It would be a salutary thing if all librari- "t-- ans were to read this book. But I guess we won't all do that, will we?-David Kaser, Recent Publications I 569 Graduate Library School, Indiana Universi- ty. Crix, F. C. Reprographic Management Handbook. London: Business Books, 1975. 288p. $23.50. (ISBN 0-220-66258- 4) New, Peter G. Reprography for Librarians. London: Clive Bingley; Hamden, Conn.: Linnet Books, 1975. 109p. $7.00. (LC 75-11631) (ISBN 0-208-01373-3) LaHood, Charles G., and Sullivan, Robert C. Reprographic Services in Libraries. Chicago: American Library Assn., 1975. 74p. $4.50. (LC 75-25585) (ISBN 0- 8389-3166-9) Just a few years ago, the word "repro- graphic" was not found in most librarians' vocabularies. Thanks to works like Nitecki's Directory of Library Reprographic Ser- vices, the term is becoming familiar, grad- ually replacing "photoduplication," "docu- ment copying," and "documentary repro- duction." It is generally understood to cov- er same-size and changed-size copying ( re- duction to micro- or enlargement to "large print" size), as well as duplicating (spirit, mimeograph) and small offset printing. Mi- cregraphics is a branch of reprography. Crix' s book emphasizes duplicating and printing. Less comprehensive, but still in- formative, is his coverage of copying; mi- crographics is kept to a scant five pages. This is the work of an experienced profes- sional who is thoroughly knowledgeable in all aspects of his field: technology, person- nel, management. Although the author's background is British and his book is gen- eral rather than library-oriented, it is so practical and well-reasoned that it can help American librarians with many personnel and other administrative problems. Crix' s approach is pragmatic, his common sense delightful, his style direct. Managers of (no matter how embryonic) repro graphic ser- vices, librarians who consider establishing such services, and students interested in du- plicating technology can profit from this well-illustrated book. Peter New counts on a much larger au- dience, writing for the librarian and library school student with a general interest in this subject, rather than the manager or the specialist. He attempts to cover the whole 570 I College & Research Libraries • November 1976 range of reprographic processes, including micrographics and such auxiliaries as col- lating, report typing, headlining, and bind- ing in less than one-third the space that Crix took. Thus, no more than a first glance at any one subject may be reasonably ex- pected. Yet there are plenty of insights and interesting, pertinent comments to intrigue the well-versed reader. The author holds that it is incumbent upon librarians to become knowledgeable about the new information transfer media, since they are, after all, in the information transfer business. The text illustrates the need for some expertise. For example, how else can the librarian ask the right ques- tions of salesmen, who extol the advantages, but are silent about, and often ignorant of, the shortcomings of their machines in li- brary service? Or how can the librarian evaluate "cost per copy" figures which can be misleading due to the omission of wast- age and other important cost factors? Several significant statements deserve at- tention in the two brief chapters devoted to micrographics. New emphasizes the im- portance of image orientation on microfilm and stresses the great practical advantages of position A (with text lines perpendicular to the film edge) over position B (lines par- allel with the film edge) . Whenever the film stops between frames, in position A the lines are complete and readable; in B, in- complete and unreadable: the film must be moved until the image is centered-a nuisance. Yet in the U.S. position B is often preferred because it uses less film-never mind that it wastes the users' time and strains their patience. New's points about preparing texts for micropublications are also well taken. On p.40 he summarizes some basic considera- tions: keep all material one way to avoid having to rotate the image (impossible with most microfiche readers); repeat illustra- tions as often as they are discussed in the text; include notes on the frame to which they belong instead of putting them at the end of the chapter. In sum, this is a very brief introduction, but valuable to those who need it. LaHood and Sullivan concentrate on those phases of reprography that interest librarians most: full-size copying and mi- crographics. The generation of the book was prompted and prodded by the Repro- duction of Library Materials Section of ALA-RTSD. It was intended to help li- brarians and library administrators with the administrative aspects of library repro- graphics. Technological detail is kept to a minimum; policy considerations are empha- sized. Questions of financing, accounting, fee- setting, location, and personnel are treated, as well as administrative, bibliographical, and technical considerations. What kinds of restrictions need to be imposed on copying certain types of library materials; where to locate coin-operated machines for easier monitoring of book-mutilating users; how to handle orders for copyrighted materials, commercial reprinters, cooperative projects; how much searching to do on orders; what to do about requests for extensive (and time-consuming) quotations-these are the kinds of questions the concise book sets out to answer. The authors write with the au- thority of first-hand knowledge acquired in many years of service and leadership in this field, Charles LaHood being the chief and Robert Sullivan a former assistant chief of the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service. These three books overlap astonishingly little in their subject coverage. The materi- al on management by Crix and that by La- Hood and Sullivan complement rather than duplicate each other. Some of New's useful comments on micrographics are not found elsewhere. Librarians will profit from read- ing all three.-Francis F. Spreitzer, Univer- sity of Southern California Library, Los An- geles. Hassall, A. G., and Hassall, W. 0. Trea- sures from the Bodleian Library. New York: Columbia Univ. Pr., 1976. 160p. $75.00. (LC 75-33231) (ISBN 0-231- 04060-1) Artistically reproduced here in color are pages from thirty-six illuminated manu- scripts in the great Bodleian collection. All but three of the manuscripts cited are list- ed in volumes 1 to 3 of the monumental catalog, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966-73). One Byzantine manuscript and