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of Using Bibliotherapy that they "will lead 
the alert, prepared librarian-bibliotherapist 
to undertake the research needed to move 
bibliotherapy from its status as an activity to 
its desired status of an art and a controlled 
science."-Sister Alma Marie Walls, 
I.H.M., Immaculata College, Immaculata, 
Pennsylvania. 

Bramley, Gerald. Outreach: Library Ser-
vices for the Institutionalized, the El-
derly, and the PhysicaUy Handicapped. 
London: Clive Bingley; Hamden, Conn.: 
Linnet Books, 1978. 232p. $12.50. LC 
78-7281. ISBN 0-85157-254-5 Bingley; 
0-208-01663-5 Linnet. 
Gerald Bramley's Outreach covers both 

the British and U.S. aspects of library ser-
vice to the institutionalized, the elderly, 
and the handicapped. Two chapters each 
are devoted to hospital libraries and prison 
libraries; one each to library services for the 
elderly, the disabled, the blind, the par-
tially sighted, the mentally retarded, and 
the deaf. Generally, the background and 
services for each group are described first 
for Great Britain and then for the U.S. with 
footnote references at the end of each chap-
ter. Curiously, however, the chapter on li-
brary services for the disabled is almost en-
tirely devoted to the British scene with only 
one of the twenty citations referring to a 
U.S. publication. 

It is evident throughout the work that 
both countries have faced similar problems 
in attempting to provide outreach services. 
With a chronic lack of personnel and funds, 
both have relied heavily on volunteers to 
staff programs, and few programs to any of 
the groups have been notably successful. 

The chapters on the blind and partially 
sighted are probably the most comprehen-
sive, giving detailed descriptions of the 
Braille and Moon systems, talking and 
large-print books, cassettes, and services, 
such as those offered by RNIB (Royal Na-
tional Institute for the Blind) and the Na-
tional Library of Talking Books, both of 
which are British. DBPH (the Division for 
the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Li-
brary of Congress, now the National Library 
Service for the Blind and Physically Hand-
icapped) and the American Printing House 
for the Blind are also described. The chap-

ter on services to the deaf is the least com-
prehensive, a result, probably, of the dearth 
of literature in this area. 

The book is intended primarily for stu-
dents of librarianship and for those begin-
ning their professional careers. While there 
are some minor inaccuracies, e.g., reference 
to Rhea Rubin as "he" (p.86); "Christina" 
for Christa (p.ll6); and reference to the in-
troduction of the Library Services and Con-
struction "Bill" in 1966-LSCA was passed 
in 1965 (p.169), as a comparative study of 
British and U.S. approaches to outreach 
services, it does fulfill its purpose and pro-
vides a good overall view. 

In addition to the referen_ces found at the 
end of each chapter, there is a select read-
ing list and index in the appendix. Concern-
ing any detailed account of U.S. involve-
ment in these types of outreach services, 
however, one must go considerably beyond 
what is found in this work. The Rehabilita-
tion Act of 1973, a crucial piece of legisla-
tion underlying any service to the disabled, 
for example, is not mentioned. It should be 
useful to those in public libraries but less so 
for those in academic and special librar-
ies. -Lucille Whalen, State University of 
New York at Albany. 

One Book/Five Ways: The Publishing Pro-
cedures of Five University Presses. 
Foreword by Joyce Kachergis. Introduc-
tion by Chandler Grannis. Afterword by 
William Kaufmann. Los Altos, Calif.: 
William Kaufmann, Inc., 1978. 337p. 
$9.75 paperback; $18.75 hardcover. LC 
78-9505. ISBN 0-913232-53-X; 0-91323-
54-8 paperback. 
This book describes how five presses 

would publish the same book, No Time for 
House Plants by "Purvis Mulch." The same 
180-page manuscript with illustrations was 
presented to the university presses of 
Chicago, North Carolina, Texas, Toronto, 
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy. Each press agreed to treat this manu-
script as if it were actually going to publish 
it and to prepare complete logs of the work 
for presentation in One Book/Five Ways. 

The presentations run from thirty-five to 
sixty-six pages, but all conform to the same 
outline covering the four major aspects of 
publishing: acquisitions and administration, 



editorial, production and design, and sales 
and promotion. Brief narrative texts explain 
the operations of the publishing houses, but 
most important are the actual copies of the 
documents involved in the publishing proj-
ect. 

There are photocopies of all the forms 
used-readers' reports, contracts, cost esti-
mates, specifications, schedules, and the 
like-filled out with information relative to 
the "one book." The manuscript was com-
pletely edited by the presses, and each 
shows portions of chapters 2 and 4 with 
editorial corrections. Reproductions of 
artwork and page proofs give an excellent 
idea of the appearance of the final book as 
envisioned by the various designers. The 
presses show many similarities and dif-
ferences in their treatment of the book. The 
differences are most noticeable in the illus-
trations, which range from delicate line 
drawings to photographic halftone plates. 
Formats vary from paper-, through spiral-, 
to hardbound, at prices from Chicago's 
$5.95 to Toronto's $9. 95. 

It is not often that a reviewer can say that 
an unreadable book is at the same time 
completely fascinating, but this one is to the 
person interested in or knowledgeable about 
publishing. One Book/Five Ways would 
make an excellent textbook-or supplement 
to a more conventional textbook-for classes 
or workshops in publishing, and its issuance 
in paperback as well as hardback will en-
courage this use. For the newcomer in pub-
lishing it provides an invaluable practical 
handbook; to the established publisher, an 
insider's view of five famous university 
presses. There is no other book that treats 
publishing in exactly this way, so that 
within its highly specialized area of interest 
it should be a "best-seller." 

But the book raises certain questions . 
Who is "Purvis Mulch," and is No Time for 
House Plants available in book form? The 
publisher's "Afterword" answers these ques-
tions. The idea originated with Hilary Mar-
shall of the University of Toronto Press in 
the 1960s. Somehow it evolved into the 
"Manuscript Project" of the American As-
sociation of University Presses (AAUP) 
under the leadership of Joyce Kachergis, 
then head of design and production at the 
University of North Carolina Press. In June 

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of 1977, when the AAUP held its annual 
meeting in Asheville, a limited edition of 
this material was published by the associa-
tion and distributed to )he delegates. Here 
it was disclosed that "Purvis Mulch" was ac-
tually Jerry Minnich, assistant director of 
the University of Wisconsin Press. Sub-
sequently his No Time for House Plants was 
accepted for publication by the University 
of Oklahoma Press, which expected to have 
it in the bookstores in the fall of 1978. Por-
tions of Oklahoma's plans for the house 
plant book, including examples of page 
proofs and artwork, are at the end of the 
book, making it actually one book six 
ways.-Budd L. Gambee, University of 
North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

Advances in Librarianship. Volume 8. 
Edited by Michael H. Harris . New York: 
Academic Press, 1978. 342p. $19.50. LC 
79-88675. ISBN 0-12-785008-2. 
There are few places one can go in library 

literature to find literate, comprehensive, 
and brief overviews of specific subject areas 
in librarianship. Advances in Librarianship 
is just one of these places. 

Volume 8, as the preface states, "focuses 
on some of the major nontechnological prob-
lems currently facing the profession." Non-
technological does not, of course, mean 
simple or nontechnical, because the seven 
articles in this volume deal with some of the 
most technically difficult issues facing librar-
ians in the last half of the twentieth-cen-
tury. The articles range over a wide spec-
trum-from collection development to li-
brary service to the American Indian to con-
tinuing education. If volume 8 has any 
weakness, it is that the articles contained in 
it are somewhat more descriptive than theo-
retical in a field that needs more of the lat-
ter. Most of the papers include excellent, 
up-to-date bibliographies. 

The paper on collection development in 
large university libraries, by Mona East and 
Rose Mary Magrill, is one of the best prim-
ers available on the subject. Collection de-
velopment has seen a great deal of change 
during the last decade, and much of this is 
detailed in this essay. 

During the halcyon days of the 1960s, 
budgets increased rapidly and libraries pur-
chased materials at tremendous rates. These