College and Research Libraries


brary, The University Library, C-075, 
University of California, San Diego, La 
Jolla, CA 92093.) 
Two small publications recently issued 

honor two outstanding librarians, Louis 
Round Wilson and Melvin Voigt. Their con-
tents parallel the lives of the two men in 
dealing with library education and univer-
sity library management. 

The pamphlet honoring Wilson is indeed 
a worthy tribute to the centenarian. In its 

' two parts we have a creditable job of por-
traying the evolution of library education in 
the Southeast by Ed Holley, Jack Dalton, 
Virginia Lacy Jones, and Mary Edna Anders 
and a thought-provoking paper on research 
libraries by Herman Fussier. Some of the 
history and thoughts expressed have been 
stated before in other publications, but 
there are "proposals" and "prospects" that 
give them meaning for today. 

A proposal, made near the end of Dal-
ton's paper, is worthy of our close attention, 
particularly in view of the demise of the 
ALA Library Education Division. It is his 
suggestion that library educators in the 
Southeast call another invitational working 
conference to consider the complexities and 
problems of the changing library profession 
that today attempts to serve the nation's 
populace. 

If the reviewer may be so presumptuous, 
he would broaden Dalton's proposal and 
suggest a nationwide conference or several 
regional conferences. It just may be that we 
as librarians, collectively, are outmoded, 
but the technology that can be applied to 
our profession is not, and we should make 
an effort to rectify the situation. 

Fussier leaves history out, picks up the 
university library where it is today with its 
multitudinous problems, and proffers some 
possible solutions. His paper is a minicourse 
in research library problems for advanced 
practitioners. The terminology will be 
difficult for uninitiated library science r stu-
dents, but even so the work should be re-
quired reading for prospective academic li-
brarians. 

This is a profound paper of thoughtful 
content. It is unfortunate that its editing 
was obviously hurried and that the evidence 
of proofreading seems totally lacking. 

The California symposium brought to-

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gether some outstanding librarians and 
scholars. Professor Andrew Wright and Basil 
Stuart-Stubbs dealt with a definition of the 
parameters for a university library collec-
tion. Here a "working scholar" and a uni-
versity librarian have at it, the scholar ask-
ing for his "bread and butter" collection 
close at hand and the librarian predicting a 
day of reckoning with the absolute satura-
tion of all available library space. 

The matter of research library cooperation 
was treated in another session of the sym-
posium. In his paper, Russell Shank spoke 
of cooperative collection development as 
often being less than satisfactory: "We do 
not always get the anticipated payoff from 
cooperative collection development 
schemes." 

Robert M. Hayes, in his description of li-
brary networks, said we do not have to wait 
any longer on the technology for resource 
sharing, only the funding. For a successful 
sharing endeavor, he would favor endowing 
the large libraries to become larger. 

Clara Jones described the new informa-
tion and referral service now in use in many 
large public library systems, delineating in 
particular the program now operational at 
the Detroit Public Library, a system that 
incorporates information from beyond the 
walls of the library and the backs of books. 

Handsomely produced by the Friends of 
the UCSD Library, the small paperback is 
as attractive as it is thought-provoking-
Roscoe Rouse, Oklahoma State University, 
Stillwater. 

Thompson, Godfrey. Planning and Design 
of Library Buildings. 2d ed. London: Ar-
chitectural Press; New York: Nichols Pub-
lishing Co., 1977. 189p. $25. LC 77-137. 
ISBN 0-89397-019-0. 
The first edition of Planning and Design· 

of Library Buildings appeared in 1973. It 
was indeed a wonderful addition to the lit-
erature, for it gave a complete overview of 
then current construction practices, 
standards, and descriptions of library build-
ings in Britain. But, one must question, as 
this writer indeed does, "Why a repeat edi-
tion in just four years?" And at $25 per 
copy, too. One praised ~he comprehensive-
ness and organization of the first edition and 
appreciated its illustrations and photo-



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graphs. It was for us on our side of the At-
lantic a great companion volume to Met-
calfs Planning Academic and Research Li-
brary Buildings-and still is. 

This second edition states in its preface 
that "the great change which has taken 
place in the last few years in the financial 
environment in which library buildings are 
conceived has inevitably had an influence 
on their planning." Such a statement in a 
preface ought to imply "great changes" in 
the second edition of the book in hand. But 
not the case: fully 98 percent of the illus-
trations and photographs are repeats-
except, of course, the publishers use one of 
the very few new photographs greatly en-
larged on the dust jacket under the words, 
"Second edition." Page after page has not 
one word of new text. Where is the "influ-
ence" of "the great change"? 

Thompson has revised his "set of all-
purpose formulae for initial, and very gen-
eral, assessment of areas needed for the 
storage of different classes of library mate-
rials" because these figures in the first edi-
tion "were too vague, and, in part, inaccu-
rate" (his words). Still, at the end of his re-
vised figures, he writes, "For a more de-
tailed set of formulae, see Metcalf." 

The second edition carries an expanded 
essay on "Conversions" by which term the 
author refers to the alteration or conserva-
tion of existing buildings. This final chapter 
of the book does indeed bring new material 
to the literature of library buildings. The 
chapter is well conceived, written, and illus-
trated. Finally, Thompson has updated and 
enlarged the "Bibliography." 

Still, the second edition is better left 
alone if you have the first edition. Remem-
bering that these are British buildings, the 
essay on conversions and the bibliography 
are hardly worth $25-better put that $25 
to another acquisition.-Hal B. Schell, Uni-
versity of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Studies in Library Management. Volume 
Four. Edited by Gileon Holroyd. Lon-
don: Clive Bingley; Hamden, Conn.: 
Linnet Books, 1977. 178p. $9. ISBN 
0-85157-240-5 Bingley; ISBN 0-208-
01547-7 Linnet; ISSN 0307-0808. 
This volume is divided into three parts 

with two essays on the general subject of 

staffing, three on people in work situations, 
and three on theoretical approaches to li-
brary management. Volume four conforms 
more or less to the pattern set by previous 
volumes in the series: little continuity with 
some overlap in topics. With the exception 
of one essay contributed by a Brazilian li-
brary educator and one by an American 
management professor, the papers are 
British authored; of these, three are by li-
brary faculty, two by public library adminis-
trators, and one by a county personnel 
officer. 

"Educational Needs for Library Manage-
ment in a Developing Country" by Antonio 
A. Briquet de Lemos appraises education 
for librarianship in Brazil. He includes an 
analysis of data collected from ex-library 
school students asked to ev.aluate the quality 
of their educational experience. 

"Manpower Requirements of Public Li-
braries" by Kevin Graves concentrates on 
the use of staffing studies for both internal 
library use and broader forecasting with il-
lustrations drawn from the study he recently 
conducted on the staffing of public libraries 
in Great Britain. Numerous suggestions are 
offered for conducting staffing studies' and 
determining manpower requirements that 
should be capable· of being applied in other 
types of library settings. 

"Organisation Development in Library 
Management" by T. D. Wilson defines or-
ganization development, describes how it 
works, reviews its limited usage to date in 
libraries, and contemplates its scope and fu-
ture potential. 

"Leicestershire Libraries: a Team Based 
Organisation Structure" by John Hinks pro-
vides a detailed discussion of the structure 
of the Leicestershire Libraries and Infqrma-
tion Service, a county public library system 
that incorporates a team-based organiza-
tional system for the professional librarians 
in its field areas. Interestingly, professionals .· 
doing nonprofessional work, and vice versa, 
are effectively eliminated through this type of 
organization, an approach that conceivably 
could also be adapted to academic and spe-
cial library environments. 

"Trade Unions and Librarianship" by R. 
D. Taylor is a loosely written analysis of 
trade union developments in Great Britain 
affecting British public and academic librar-