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594 I College & Research Libraries· November 1981 

braries rather than with the Association of 
Research Libraries. One can envision the use 
of this reader in library school courses on the 
foundations of librarianship as well as in pro-
grams of continuing education for librarians 
and information workers.-Dan Bergen, 
University of Rhode Island, Kingston. 

Dale, Doris C. Career Patterns of Women Li-
brarians with Doctorates. Occasional Pa-
pers no.147, December 1980. Urbana: 
University of Illinois Graduate School of 
Library Science, 1980. 28p. $3. ISSN 
0073-5310. 

Lundy, Kathryn Renfro. Women View Li-
brarianship: Nine Perspectives. ACRL Pub-
lications in Librarianship no.41. Chicago: 
American Library Assn., 1980. 108p. $7. 
LC 80-23611. ISBN 0-8389-3251-7. 
From a scholarly point of view these two 

studies have so little in common that their 
common subject, women in librarianship, 
seems hardly to connect them. Doris Dale has 
conducted and here reports upon a question-
naire survey of 300 living women librarians 

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with earned doctorates of whom just over 50 
percent responded. In a clear narrative style 
she explains how the women were identified, 
the techniques used in conducting the study, 
and the numerical details of all responses to 
the thirty-eight-question, four-page survey 
instrument. 

I wish the questionnaire itself had been re-
produced as part of this report, but Dale's 
table-by-table summary makes that an aca-
demic rather than substantive issue. Of 
slightly more importance is a tone which 
creeps into the descriptions, especially in the 
latter pages when discrimination is the topic, 
a tone of complaint that does not seem to be 
justified by the data. 

I think we must all be aware by now that 
women have been discriminated against in 
our profession (a so-called women's profes-
sion) as in other professional, business, and 
work areas. There is some evidence that the 
situation is improving, but discrimination by 
sex exists. Therefore, it is a surprise to dis-
cover that of more than 150 women respon-
dents only about one third indicated they had 
been discriminated against either overtly or 
covertly. In reporting this Dale slips a little 
into "over-selling" the reported discrimina-
tion. 

Where Dale is scientific, Lundy is humani-
tarian. Having interviewed, in 1978, nine fe-
male leaders of the profession, she sent each a 
transcript and accepted their corrections. 
The resulting question/answer texts are pre-
sented verbatim with brief-too brief-
introductions outlining the careers of the 
women. 

These are great librarians: Page Acker-
man, Patricia Battin, Martha Boaz, Connie 
Dunlap, Margaret Goggin, Virginia Lacy 
Jones, Annette Phinazee, Sarah Rebecca 
Reed, and Helen Tuttle. It is satisfying to 
read their considered responses to questions 
ranging from ideas about administration and 
personal career choices to developing library 
school curricula and advice to beginning pro-
fessionals. What is not satisfying is the lack of 
spontaneity which should be a strength of the 
interview format. It was edited out, one sus-
pects, when the interviewers saw their less 
than carefully planned verbal expressions in 
the cold, black light of print. 

Still, this is more enjoyable reading than 
most of our professional literature, and 



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should give young librarians a few interesting 
insights into their futures. 

Both these booklets should be in all library 
science collections.-David Laird, Univer-
sity of Arizona, Tucson. 

Collection Development in Libraries: A Trea-
tise. Edited by Robert D. Steuart and 
George B. Miller, Jr. Foundations in Li-
brary and Information Science, V .10 (Part 
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As library budgets decline in real dollars 

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themselves, including blanket orders, Latin 
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of quantitative methods such as citation and 
circulation analysis to guide development; 
(4) special problems arising from format (mi-
croforms, media) or sources (government 
documents); and (5) "new directions," which 
includes such diverse subjects as "education 
for collection development" (Charles B. Os-
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