College and Research Libraries


half century in the beau monde of south-
ern letters. 

All in all this is a good book, a fitting trib-
ute to a great librarian, and a valuable con-
tribution to the literature of the two library 
fields that benefited most from the atten-
tion and ministration of Frances Neel 
Cheney-reference services and library 
education.-David Kaser, Indiana Univer-
sity. 

Stueart, Robert. Academic Librarianship: 
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. New 
York: Neal-Schuman, 1982. 273p. 
$24.95. LC 81-18866. ISBN 0-918212-
52-9. 
How many reviews of Festschriften be-

gin with these words: ''As with any collec-
tion of articles, the strength of these es-
says varies"? It is a cliche at best, and like 
all cliches it is essentially true. This collec-
tion is nowhere identified as a Festschrift 
for Ralph Ellsworth, but it is dedicated to 
him and contains a bibliography of works 
by and about him, as well as a list of the 
places he has served as a consultant and a 
narrative bio-bibliography that is more 
bio- than biblio- and in any case, brief. 

Librarians have traditionally ''disliked'' 
Festschriften; the publisher was wise to 
avoid the designation. They are hard to 
classify, they do not lend themselves to 
subject analysis and, most distressing, un-
til and unless they are picked up in some 
indexing tool, the articles in them are 
''lost'' to future retrieval unless one has 
an accurate and fairly complete citation. 

Laying aside those traditional objec-
tions, there is an even more pressing con-
cern: why should articles on consulting by 
Ellsworth Mason (the other Ellsworth), 
centralized cataloging by Joe Howard and 
Judith Schmidt, and interlibrary coopera-
tion by Joe Hewitt be published in a book 
rather than in a professional journal 
where they would get much wider distri-
bution and :r:eading? These are but three of 
the thirteen articles (written by fifteen au-
thors) that now share limbo with Fest-
schriften in all fields during the past 200 
years. 

Let me make myself perfectly clear! I ap-
plaud Mr. Stueart' s efforts in acknowl-
edging the Ralph Ellsworth contribution 

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to our profession. My published words 
elsewhere show my admiration for both 
the man and myth. I wish, however, the 
tribute had taken another form. It is nei-
ther too late nor too early for librarians to 
band together forming an eternal alliance. 
We'll call it ''Librarians against Festschrif-
ten" (LAF, or perhaps LAF, for short). 
And, since organizations cannot survive 
based on purely negative motivations, 
ours shall have this positive goal: We shall 
strive to create a new journal. It will be 
called Festschrift International; beginning 
as an annual and moving quickly through 
the gears to become a weekly. The obvious 
result will be fifty-two Festschriften per 
year, surely enough to meet the world's 
needs. To the delight of librarians it will be 
indexed in a major indexing service thus 
eliminating the need for analytics and in-
dividual subject cataloging. 

In the meantime, collections with inter-
ests in academic librarianship must buy 
the present book. With contributions by 
Clyde Walton, Dale Bentz, and the late 
Carl Jackson (perhaps his last published 
writing), as well as other well-recognized 
academic library leaders, it will be re-
quested from time to time by patrons who 
stumble upon a reference to it.-W. David 
Laird, University of Arizona Library. 

Prange, W. Werner and others. Tomor-
row's Universities: A Worldwide Look at 
Educational Change. Boulder, Colo.: 
Westview Press, 1982. 238p. $20. LC 82-
060045. ISBN 0-86531-410-1. 
Primarily a report from the World Con-

ference on Innovative Higher Education 
held in May 1978, this book is an aid to the 
understanding of university innovations 
around the world at the beginning of the 
1980s. 

The conference was convened by Bu-Ali 
Sina University of Iran, Linkoping Uni-
versity of Sweden, and the University of 
Wisconsin-Green Bay in cooperation with 
the Johnson Foundation. 

The problems arising from the national 
environments in which institutions of 
higher education plan their programs are 
many and varied. Developing countries 
are seeing an increase in the need for 
higher education to develop leaders for