College and Research Libraries 356 I College & Research Libraries • July 1977 servicing of these publications. The former aspect of the report renders it a valuable reference tool in its own right, but it is the latter part that is more significant and shall receive most attention. The results in the second part are based on questionnaires returned from sampled libraries which requested information about library holdings of Canadian government publications, loan policies, access to shelves, hours of opening, staffing, use and users, and the adequacy of bibliogr~phical tools . Questionnaires were also sent to provincial government printing and publishing offices inquiring about distribution methods, de- pository library systems, and the issuance of checklists. In addition, potential library users were also contacted to identify if these people obtain government information from libraries or other sources. All this means a report with a lot of data and information, any segment of which has value to libraries or persons interested in publications. The amount and kinds of data furnished make a significant contribution in an area characterized by a paucity of studies. What emerges from Access is a clear picture of what Canadian libraries are doing to organize and service their govern- ments' publications. Certain trends are dis- cernible: large academic libraries tend towards separate collections, public libraries integrate their documents more than aca- demic libraries, strong provincial docu- ments collections are found wanting in smaller academic and public libraries. Although averages and mean scores are registered for the various data categories, meaningful comparisons on staffing pat- terns, processing time, and use are actually lacking because the sample skews the fig- ures. It is notable that the study indicates that libraries with computerized processing were not significantly more efficient in pro- cessing their publications than those with conventional intake procedures. The in- congruities or lack of usefulness of some of the derived scores is attributable to the as- sumption in certain tables that libraries ser- vicing similar-size clienteles have similar collections; This is not to impeach the usefulness or value of Access. The comparative data are presented in a sharp graphic format, and any administrator or librarian responsible for a documents collection can easily obtain a sense of where his or her operation stands in relation to others in spite of some short- comings in the data. Needless to say, this support from the study is of immeasurable value, and a resourceful person can put the indicators to work. As is the case in most reports, recom- mendations are made. They all have merit even though one could guess what was coming when reading the report. For in- stance, some serious problems with biblio- graphic control and distribution of official publications need a remedy. The recom- mendations came down more on the side of separate collections than integrated ones. Some disagreements could surface about the proposal that equates accessibility with open-stacks. As could be expected, the study recommends a need for standards for government publications collections. The sad fact is that so little study and re- search have been made of government pub- lications collections that there still is no agreement on how to count government publications. So there is a long way to go. In spite of shortcomings, Access is a fine example of a very good study of a neglect- ed area and hopefully is a start in the right direction. Professor Jarvi states in the intro- duction that more is to come.-Harry E. Welsh, Government Documents Center, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle. Conference on Library Orientation, 5th, Eastern Michigan University, 1975. Fac- ulty Involvement in Library Instruction: Their Views on Participation in and Sup- pprt of Academic Library Use Instruc- tion~ Edited by Hannelore B. Rader. Ann Arbor: Pierian Pr., 1976. 119p. $8.50. LC 76-21914. ISBN 0-87650-070-X. Both the title and subtitle of this slim volume are disappointingly misleading. Rather than sticking to its implication of faculty-library cooperative projects, "faculty involvement" is used as a catchall to justify presentations on almost anything to do with academic library instruction-ranging from . the introductory remarks by Fred .Blum, who talks about the need for faculty to re- ceive such instruction (a theme left unde- veloped by the other participants), to Announcing Stechert MacDlillan's WORLD'S LANGUAGES CATALOG General and Special Dictionaries and Grammars 17th Edition Librarians know that dictionaries are basic reference works in all libraries. This, the newest, and most comprehensive catalog Stechert Macmillan has produced to date, is more than a listing of dictionaries and grammars in over 200 languages, it includes linguistics handbooks and the most significant and useful encyclopedias and periodicals in many specialized fields, such as science, medicine, industry, technology and literature. 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Send __ c.opy(ies) 17th edition World's Languages Catalog. Total amount enclosed$ ____ _ Attention: Name: ----------------------------------------- Address: Town/City _______ County/State------ Postal Code/Zip _____ Country-------- Check or Money Order must be endosed. CRJ-7 1------------------------------------------------------~ 358 I College & Research Libraries • July 1977 Jacquelyn Morris' description of one li- brary's battle with its faculty to receive approval for its credit course in library use. Since only five of the fifteen speeches re- corded in the volume were given by faculty members, it is hardly a record of "their views," either. The faculty presentations are surprising- ly lightweight-generally either bland, if pleasant, endorsements of library instruc- tion or arguments for making it conform to the professor's somewhat obscure perspec- tive. The latter papers contain such nuggets as "a librarian with little or no background in chemistry . . . would be understandably reluctant to help a student needing to use [Chemical Abstracts], much less be in- volved in any instruction," which at least serves as a useful reminder that the librari- an's skills are not yet fully understood by our faculty colleagues. What's left? If one ignores the lack of a well-defined theme, there are some good papers on varying topics. Susan Edwards presents the results of a study at the Uni- versity of Colorado on how faculty perceive that their students learn to use libraries (for example, while 75 percent of the facul- ty only occasionally-or never-explained reference sources in their field, a majority thought the students somehow learned about such resources in other classes or in high school). The study might provide some interesting ammunition for librarians starting instruction programs. Three papers by Susan Lossing, Anne Beaubien, and Mary George, the Universi- ty of Michigan's dynamic trio of graduate- level library instruction specialists, describe their impressive program aimed at graduate students-and what it took to get it going. These papers, along with additional re- marks by Connie Dunlap (then head of Michigan's Graduate Library), are the best in the volume. These proceedings will be of interest mostly to those already involved in library instruction and, of course, should be in li- brary school libraries. They can be skipped by most others, except that librarians hav- ing trouble getting administrative support for instruction programs may wish to slip a copy of Lossing's paper on the need for administrative commitment into their boss's morning maiL-Allan ]. Dyson, Moffitt Un- dergraduate Library, University of C alifor- nia, Berkeley. Weatherford, John W. Collective Bargain- ing and the Academic Librarian. Metuch- en, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1976. 147p. $6.00. LC 76-45424. ISBN 0-8108-0983-4. Experience gained from six years of ac- tive involvement in collective bargaining and from one year of investigative research into the key issues of negotiation has well prepared the author to compile a "primer of collective bargaining for the faculty in general, with special emphasis on academic librarianship." His focus is "the study of mature bargaining relationships involving librarians in four-year colleges and univer- sities in the U.S." The result is a well-re- searched, objective, and intelligent exam- ination of current issues facing academic librarians, unionized or not. The first of the eight chapters covers the historical development of collective bar- gaining on American campuses, paying spe- cial attention to the impact of geographical scope and governmental legislation on bar- gaining, as well as providing an incisive analysis of the causes and process of nego- tiation and a brief sketch of the unions in- volved. Five succeeding chapters deal with the major areas of bargaining: compensation, the bargaining unit, conditions of employ- ment, governance, and contract adminis- tration. Each issue is lucidly identified, and various methods of resolving conflicts are outlined, using specific examples from col- lege and university negotiations throughout the country. Especially helpful are the comprehensive notes identifying related lit- erature, complemented by an appended se- lective bibliography. The work concludes with a summary of the prospects for collective bargaining, in- cluding a thoughtful examination of its im- pact on libraries as well as librarians. His analysis of the effect of bargaining on book selection, library goals, minorities, arid pro- fessionalism is especially significant in that few such appraisals have been written. This is an informative, well-written work for librarians wanting basic information on the "what is" of collective bargaining. If