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there is a weak point, it concerns the 
"how." Several times the author mentions 
that academic librarians have severe prob-
lems in collective bargaining because of 
their minority position in the bargaining 
unit, but little comment is made as to how 
to solve this dilemma. 

Similarly, the author admits that he offers 
no perspectives pro or con on how librar-
ians should view collective bargaining in 
general. While librarians have long needed 
a dispassionate assessment of the collective 
bargaining movement and their place in it, 
in the case of this book, an objective and 
thorough treatment of the subject and some 
concrete concluding opinions from Weath-
erford, with his experiences, might have 
served a very useful purpose. Such minor 
considerations aside, however, this book is 
vital reading for all librarians contemplat-
ing unionization-or, simply, current issues 
in librarianship.-Lothar Spang, Assistant 
to the Director, Wayne State University Li-
braries, Detroit, Michigan. 

Daniells, Lorna ~1. Business Information 
Sources. Berkeley: Univ. of California 

Recent Publications I 359 

Pr., 1976. 439p. $14.95. LC 7 4-30.517. 
ISBN 0-520-02946-1. 

In the past decade in geometrically in-
creasing numbers it seems businessmen 
have come to recognize the importance and 
necessity of up-to-date information in their 
problem solving and planning in all areas. 
Present curricula for business students re-
quire accessibility to a wider and wider 
range of information. There is more infor-
mation around and in a greater variety of 
forms than ever before. Librarians must 
cope with these growths, and they need all 
the help they can get. 

While there is a plethora of satisfactory, 
timely guides to specific aspects of business, 
there has not been a satisfactory general 
comprehensive guide to business sources 
since the second edition of Edwin T. Co-
man's Sources of Business Information in 
1964. This new book by Lorna M. Daniells 
admirably meets the need. Businessmen, 
business students, and librarians will find 
it indispensable. She was asked to revise 
the earlier work; but with the great 
changes of the past ten years, while the 

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purpose of the book is much the same and 
some of the same material is covered, this 
is a completely different work. 

Essentially a selected, annotated list of 
business books and reference sources em-
phasizing recent material in English and 
books published in the United States, the 
book is a distillation of experience of a 
business reference librarian at Baker Li-
brary at the Harvard Business School and 
reflects her expertise and personal assess-
ments. 

Roughly half of the book deals with basic 
sources: bibliographies, indexes and ab-
stracts, directories, statistical and financial 
sources, and data on current trends. The 
latter half deals with specific management 
functions with handbooks and basic text-
books appearing first in each chapter fol-
lowed by reference works. The concluding 
chapter lists a basic bookshelf. 

The detailed index by author, title, and 
subject demonstrates further the growth 
and change of the past few years. There are 
three entries concerning automation in 
Coman's 1964 index and almost a full page 
of entries on computers in Daniells' 1976 
index. It is to be hoped that plans are al-
ready underway for a new edition to come 
out a few years from now. One great value 
of this volume is its timeliness. A book with 
such timeliness and such broad coverage 
should also have some omissions and a few 
inaccuracies. These seem very hard to find. 
If I found any, I would let Ms. Daniells 
know for the next edition.-Barbara R. 
Healy, Management Library, University of 
Rochester, Rochester, New York. 

Hicks, Warren B., and Tillin, Alma M. 
Managing Multimedia Libraries, New 
York: Bowker, 1977. 264p. $13.95. LC 
76-49116. ISBN 0-8352-0628-9. 
Managing Multimedia Libraries is an im-

portant book. It might have been called 
Contemporary Library Management, for 
what library is there today which does not 
offer a multimedia approach? The title is, 
of course, related to Hicks and Tillin' s 
earlier work, Developing Multimedia Li-
braries (Bowker, 1970), which became a 
vade mecum for many librarians who were 
expanding their information resources. In 
this new work, the authors have drawn 

upon their extensive knowledge of the mul-
timedia environment (i.e., contemporary so-
ciety); they relate their knowledge and ex-
periences to the coordination of personnel 
management and to the planning and op-
erating of processes in the modern library. 

The work is comprehensive and carefully 
organized. Each chapter begins with an ab-
stract of the topics to be treated in that 
chapter and concludes with a summary of 
the key points discussed. Th~ bibliography 
is thorough, drawn from library literature, 
and provides both support for and further 
expansion of the topics treated. There is ~n 
appendix of sample job descriptions and an 
index. 

The central concept of the book is the 
application of management by objectives 
in a systematic and humane fashion. The 
authors advocate a dynamic management 
approach which analyzes, structures, and 
evaluates the entire system, thereby allow-
ing for and anticipating both change and 
progress within the organization. Hicks and 
Tillin demonstrate a broad acquaintance 
with management problems, both system-
based and people-based. Short case studies 
and examples of practical applications are 
used to clarify and illuminate the principles 
of management responsibilities and tech-
niques. These examples are real and rele-
vant. The situations and the solutions are 
human and humanely discussed, treating 
elements such as "fairness" and "considera-
tion" in the section dealing with personnel 
management. 

The authors address library management 
as a systematic process, derived from sound 
and tested principles of management the-
ory. Hicks and Tillin claim that "by using 
basic syste~s procedures and · supplying 
data and detail specific to libraries, the 
translation of management skills into an 
effective and comprehensive methodology 
of library planning and development func-
tioning can be achieved." And in this well-
written monograph, they lay a blueprint for 
implementation of the process which they 
describe. 

This new work should be required read-
ing for professional librarians, regardless of 
the level of their role in management. 
Those who are being "managed" need to 
be familiar with the basic ground rules