College and Research Libraries 92 College & Research Libraries able to respond to technological change despite budgetary constraints. The Uni- versity of Georgia experience differs from the other three in that the library has opted to maintain the university's own lo- cally developed system, MARVEL, with a batch mode to reduce cataloging cost, and to cooperate closely with the campus com- puter center to develop its programs. It re- sponded to its own institutional needs by being a partner with the computer center. To respond to and capitalize on one's own unique institutional environment with its specific and special needs and ca- pabilities is perhaps the key to the survey findings. As the report concludes in its overview, it is important to recognize that management processes and automated systems of these or- ganizations were developed within unique sets of environment factors . . . the benefits of these case studies lies in noting how each institution and its library responded to technological change within the context of its institutional goals, objectives, and priorities . The report has another cautionary note. Automation does not result in reduced op- erating costs. And perhaps more serious yet, the true costs are difficult to ascertain. The four case histories provide interest- ing, indeed illuminating, albeit brief, de- scriptions of four success stories of how these libraries responded to the challenge by meeting their respective institutional needs within their specific institutional environment. The cases illustrated admin- istrative savoir faire and professional vi- sion as well as expertise, but the cold facts of cost estimates and cost-benefit analysis remain elusive. If one may wish for more from this very useful study, perhaps it would be that not only success stories are studied. If only some libraries would in- struct us with their stories of thwarted hopes and failed experiments! So often we learn more from failures than from successes.-¥. T. Feng, Harvard College Li- brary, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Carpenter, Kenneth E. The First 350 Years of the Harvard University Library: Descrip- tion of an Exhibition . Cambridge: Har- vard Univ. Library, 1986. 216 p. $20. January 1988 Whatever one wishes to call it-a collec- tion of collections, a library of libraries, the world's largest privately supported li- brary, an international collection, or sim- ply many tubs sailing the bibliographical seas on their individual bottoms-the Har- vard University Library is a phenomenon that commands admiration and respect. After 350 years of existence it celebrated its many achievements with this catalog to an exhibition documenting its course into the contemporary world. The reader quickly perceives the library's evolution from a struggling provincial outpost to a period of unprecedented collection building be- ginning in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The story concludes with Har- vard's approach to the preservation of all that it has so assiduously gathered during its long history, and its need to control its collections with the use of automation and · its own library information system. Har- vard, in effect, has seen it all, as is made clear by this careful gathering of incidents and personalities from the copious rec- ords of the library's past. The message is clear. This mighty insti- tution has a past to be reckoned with. In its long life, it has participated in more than one kind of revolution and has instigated, on the bibliographical side, quite a few of its own. With its own rich historical experience-one might say lineage-the Harvard University Library can take on whatever comes its way. One of the vir- tues of this volume is that it gives a broad perspective of change and durability within a unique institution from which the thoughtful reader can draw the lessons of history, or at least the history of libraries. The presentation is simple and direct, enabling the reader to .become engaged at any point that attracts an interest. More than eighty years were selected to estab- lish the inevitability of Harvard's great- ness. Each chosen year signifies an event that melds into the ultimate character of the institution and presumably affects it forever. It is a persistent gathering of strength and diversity with only a trace, here and there, of puffery or unnecessary hyperbole. The Harvard library becomes, as one moves through the years, truly the HE RESOURCE AUTHORITIES. The History of Education collection, spanning five centuries, now on microfiche. One comprehensive source for virtually every aspect of the study of education from Research Publication. Filmed from the holdings of Milbank Memorial Li- brary of Teachers College at Columbia University, this noted collection provides scholars and researchers with rare insight into educational theories and prac- tices from the 15th through the 19th centuries. 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These vary in length and tone as they develop individ- ual themes that crisscross the library's his- tory, usually supported with a good lacing of facts and anecdote~. A high level of in- terest is maintained through the copious use of illustrations, adding to the sense of destiny embodied in the era of Justin Win- sor and the great period of collection building that followed. The collection at this point begins to dominate the scene and remains the focal point despite the in- evitable need to be operationally and physically up-to-date . The range of the chronologically ar- ranged topics places the Harvard library and its manifold collections in their many worlds. "A Harvard Library Book Helps Defeat the British" is an appropriate wording for 1775. "Harvard's Librarians Begin to Act Professionally'' signals an early awakening, certainly for 1827, among the librarians, although there is relatively little to be told about the great · mass of staff which made the library work day in and day out .. The inevitability of fund-raising for a private institution was noted in 1842 with ''Harvard First Suc- cessfully Raises Funds to Fill Gaps in the Collections.'' Institutional inventiveness is heralded with ''The First American Card Catalog for Users is Proposed" in 1860. The anniversary year of 1986 is marked by five essays, illustrated with a grim view of Harvard's storage library set forlornly in a wooded area. Throughout these engaging short pieces we are able to capture glimpses of Justin Winsor, Francis James Child, Charles W. Eliot, Archibald Cary Coolidge, William A. Jackson, Philip Hofer, Keyes Metcalf and others who con- tributed mind and matter to the library's greatness. Beyond the events and individuals that have given Harvard its distinctive place, certain pervasive themes exist. Harvard, of course, has been preeminent in its at- tempt to capture the word, now locked into a still-growing collection of 11.2 mil- lion volumes. The need to give a whole- ness to this vast number, especially within Ha_rvard's federated system of libraries, is January 1988 a persistent motif. With books consciously placed everywhere on its campus and closely identified with their immediate au- dience, control defers to coordination, and ultimately, to diversity. •character, sensibility, and an awareness of history become integrative forces rather than cur- rent management theory. The Harvard li- brary is justly proud of its ability to inno- vate, another unmistakable theme as well as a trait which will continue to be called up. This volume has succeeded in making the history of one great library come alive. As an introduction it points the way to a fuller account that should come. The sources are there and the story a rich one. Until that time, this volume will serve the general reader, the historian of libraries and learning, and above all, perhaps, present and future librarians who, in turn, serve Harvard's great library.-Robert Ro- senthal, The Joseph Regenstein Library, Uni- versity of Chicago, Illinois. Internationalizing Library and Informa- tion Science Education: A Handbook of Policies and Procedures in Administra- tion and Curriculum. Ed. by John F. Harvey and Frances Laverne Carroll. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1987. 402p. $49.95 (ISBN 0-313-23728-X). LC 86-9946. The first words of the introduction to this collection of articles by some twenty- eight authors assert that ''as far as librari- anship is concerned, nationalism 'is dead and internationalism has replaced it." This thought, posited a decade ago by Maro Chauveinc in IFLA 's First Fifty Years, Achievement and Challenge in International Librarianship ( ed. by Will em R. H. Koops and Joachim Wieder. Munich: Verlag Dokumentation, 1977), is certainly argua- ble today if one takes the United States as one's point of reference. Patel, Schick, and Harvey himself (coeditor) point out in their chapter titled ''An International Data and Information Collection and Research Program'' that the 1980s have seen a shift in cooperation and information exchange from developed to developing nations. It · is now the economically emerging areas that, perforce, have an international out-