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(Selected items will be reviewed in future issues of College and Research Libraries).

• Shelf Access for Libraries‚ by Richard Joseph Hyman (American Library Association, 1982, $12.50), begins with a history of shelf arrangement from ancient times and an analysis of the intrinsic inadequacies of bibliographical schemes for shelf access. The following chapters describe how librarians in the major types of libraries deal with the practical problems of direct access by devising shelf schemes appropriate to their clients’ interests and requirements. The final chapter considers the future of shelf classification.

•“In the past several years, I have written extensively on an evolving paperless society and the implications of this evolution for libraries and librarians,” writes F.W. Lancaster. His Libraries and Librarians in an Age of Electronics (Information Resources Press, 1982, $22.50) represents an “attempt to pull this and other material together and to present it as a coherent whole. ”

•Pierian Press has announced the publication of Union Lists: Issues and Answers‚ number two in the series Current Issues in Serials Management. The $16.95 book is intended to assist union list planners to identify concerns and problems they will encounter in their work. It contains the proceedings of a 1979 conference on union list work sponsored by the Technical Services Chapter of the California Library Association.

• Reading Research and Librarianship: A History and Analysis‚ by Stephen Karetzky (Greenwood, 1982, $37.50), “traces the development of the movement within the library profession to conduct scientific research on the sociological aspects of adult reading. ”

• Electronic Document Delivery: The ARTEMIS Concept for Document Digitalisation and Teletransmission,by Adrian Norman and Arthur D. Little, provides a review of the technology of electronic document delivery by focusing on a description of ARTEMIS (Automatic Retrieval of Text from Europe’s Multinational Information Service). The report, available at $45 from Knowledge Industry Publications, explains capture and conversion techniques, intelligent copiers and printers, and how the user can store and exchange data.

•The purpose of Ahead of Its Time: The Engineering Societies Library‚ 1913-80 (Shoe String, 1982, $25) is to describe the technical resources of the Engineering Societies Library of the United Engineering Society in Manhattan, and the “significant contribution the library has made to the furtherance of the goals of the engineering profession,” writes author Ellis Mount.

• Library Leadership: Visualizing the Future‚edited by Donald E. Riggs, is a collection of 12 essays. Contributors were asked to address the current status of leadership in their areas of expertise and to project the impact leadership (or lack of it) will have on their specialties. They were asked: 1) not to project beyond the year 2000; and 2) not to devote much attention to library administration and management. The 1982 hardcover is available from Oryx Press for $27.50.

•James R. Mingle & Associates’ Challenges of Retrenchment: Strategies for Consolidating Programs‚ Cutting Costs‚ and Reallocating Resources concerns the difficult management and policy issues facing higher education and government because of expected declines in enrollment and in financial support.” Published in 1981 by Jossey-Bass, the hardcover is priced at $17.95.

• Conservation Treatment Procedures: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Maintenance and Repair of Library Materials‚ by Carolyn Clark Morrow (Libraries Unlimited, 1982, $18 U.S., $22 elsewhere) demonstrates the procedures for basic book repair, maintenance, and protective encasement. Illustrated with detailed photographs, the text is intended for the librarian who manages the book repair and maintenance activities and the paraprofessional or technician who actually does the work.

•Carried out by Judith Collins and Ruth Finer, National Acquisition Policies and Systems: A Comparative Study of Existing Systems and Possible Models forms part of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) UAP program. “This report attempts to define and identify national acquisition policies and systems which must be considered by national policy-makers. Current practices are described and used to derive a series of basic models of national acquisition policies and systems.” This 1982 softcover is published by the IFLA International Office for UAP in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, England.

•Arthur Young details how the American Library Association responded to the call for support to America s World War I fighting forces, both at home and abroad, in Books for Sammies: The American Library Association and World War I. He judges the ALA’s Library War Service “an unusually successful venture” and provides extensive coverage of the library service offered in training camps throughout the nation. Number 15 in the Beta Phi Mu series of modern chapbooks, Books for Sammies (1982, hardcover) is available at $12.50 from the Publications Office, Beta Phi Mu, c/o College of Library Science,

• Knowledge Industry Publications has published Changing Information Concepts and Technologies: A Reader for the Professional Librarian (1982). The reader consists of chapters selected from 1980 and 1981 Professional Librarian monographs on each of these technologies and concepts: The Library and Information Manager s Guide to Online Services; Telecommunications and Libraries: A Primer for Librarians and Information Managers; Microcomputers and Libraries: A Guide to Technology‚ Products‚ and Applications; and Getting Ready for AACR2: The Cataloger’s Guide.

• The special nature of library services for the handicapped and copyright problems associated with the production and dissemination of materials in braille, audiotape, and large print are all examined in Copyright and Library Materials for the Handicapped, by Francoise Hebert and Wanda Noel (IFLA Publication No. 21). The study, published this year, is available from K.G. Saur.

• “This book has been written to guide the new or inexperienced director of a small library, who must come to grips very quickly with many aspects of management, through the first year of the job,” writes author Beverly A. Rawles in the preface to Human Resource Management in Small Libraries (Shoe String, 1982). An annotated bibliography at the end of each chapter refers to books and articles that treat the subject in more detail.

• The second edition of Map Librarianship‚ by Harold Nichols ($29.50), represents a thorough revision of the original text, first published in 1976. This 1982 edition, published by Clive Bingley and available from Shoe String, “seeks to bring together the basic principles of map librarianship, and to stimulate ideas on the development of map libraries and their reference and information services.” ■■