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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-



ians with some attention given to the rela-
tionship between professionalism and 
unionism. 

"Strategy, Structure, Style and Appraisal 
Applied to Libraries" by Paul J. Gordon is a 
critical examination of traditional assump-
tions and current thinking on organizational 
questions relating to behavior, design, and 
structure. He stresses there are no universal 
but only partial and conditional theories of 
management and also the need to consider 
varieties of organizations. 

"Economics in Library Management" by 
Nick Moore discusses the development of 
economics, applications to management, and 
contributions to the development of library 
management theories. Recent research 
studies on book selection, collection size, 
and collection effectiveness are used to illus-
trate the relevance of economics theory to 
practical library decision making. 

"Librarianship: Practice, Research and 
Theory" by Stephen A. Roberts, after dis-
cussing the concepts of science, research, 
theory, and practice, reviews several con-
temporary issues confronting research in li-
brarianship. His paper concludes with a dis-
cussion of criteria for the advancement of li-
brary research in Great Britain. 

The papers are not easy reading and re-
quire knowledge of the state of the library 
management art-in all its practical and 
theoretical aspects-for adequate com-
prehension of the topics discussed. How-
ever, those library managers and advanced 
students of library management who take 
the time to prod through this volume care-
fully will find food for thought and reflective 
action. The volume is not for those looking 
for quick answers to practical problems; 
rather, it raises numerous questions with 
possibilities of alternative strategies, tech-
niques, and structures grounded in present, 
future, or conjectured theories.-Michael B. 
Binder, Clinch Valley College of the Uni-
versity of Virginia, Wise. 

Marshall, Joan K., comp. On Equal Terms: 
A Thesaurus for Nonsexist Indexing and 
Cataloging. New York: Neal-Schuman 
Publishers, Inc., 1977. 152p. $14.95 
hardcover; $9.50 paperbound. LC 77-
8987. ISBN 0-918212-02-2 hardcover; 
0-918212-03-0 paper. (Distributed by 

Recent Publications I 233 

ABC-Clio, Inc., Box 4397, Santa Barbara, 
CA 93103.) 
This list, produced under the aegis of the 

Committee on Sexism in Subject Headings 
organized under the sponsorship of the 
American Library Association's SRRT (Social 
Responsibilities Round Table) Task Force on 
Women, contains descriptors/subject head-
ings for topics relating to people and 
peoples, particularly women. 

The intent of this thesaurus, as stated in 
the introduction, is "to provide both a list of 
descriptors suitable for indexing materials of 
concern to women and other classes of 
people who have not been well served by 
the LCSH and a critique of the LCSH and 
LC' s subject heading assignment policies." 

Three categories of terms are included: 
(1) additions to Library of Congress Subject 
Headings (LCSH) to cover areas of women's 
concerns that are not presently covered; (2) 
revisions of biased LCSH terms ; and (3) 
LCSH headings that have been include.d 
merely to expand the reference structure or 
to add subdivisions (p.12). In terms of 
scope, the list is not comprehensive or 
exhaustive, even for headings relating to 
women. LC headings that are considered 
adequate are generally not included in this 
list but are intended to be used along with 
those listed. In some areas, only a number 
of model headings are listed, according to 
which additional headings on similar sub-
jects may be developed. As a result, this 
thesaurus seems to have been designed to 
be used as a supplementary list to LCSH 
and cannot be used independently without 
further development and expansion. 

This list seeks mainly to improve on the 
terminology used in LCSH by using more 
current terms and by providing terms not 
yet present in .LCSH (including new head-
ings and narrower headings than those in 
LC SH) and additional cross-references. 
Existing LC headings that are considered to 
be biased or offensive are replaced by neu-
tral or "nonbiased" terms. 

Offensive or controversial terms , such as 
"Infanticide" and "Female offenders," are 
not only replaced by other terms but also 
dropped as referred-from references. It may 
be questioned whether eliminating these 
terms as referred-from references is desir-
able in terms of retrieval effectiveness. It is