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RECEIVED

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

• Aaron and Elaine Cohen s Designing and Space Planning for Libraries: A Behavioral Guide (Bowker, 1979, $24.95) presents the authors’ views (one an architect, the other a behaviorist) on how to set up a library and give equal recognition to human behavior as well as to aesthetics and building function. In addition to discussions on planning and layout of library space, the authors also include information on choice of furniture and equipment; lighting, power, and energy; color and signage; and acoustics.

• Frances Simonsen Bernhardt’s Introduction to Library Technical Services (H. W. Wilson, 1979, $15) has been prepared “as a textbook for a course in technical services in a two-year library/media technology program’’ and is designed not only for such students but also for those working in a library as well as those contemplating a career decision.

• Charles L. Bernier and A. Neil Yerkey’s Cogent Communication: Overcoming Reading Overload (Greenwood, 1979, $19.95), presenting two aspects of the problem—the unreadable abundance of relevant material and the inability to use what has been read, gives the authors’ discussion of methods used to cope with the problem and introduces the principle of cogency (the intelligent and productive use of what is read). This volume is number 26 in Greenwood’s Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science.

• The International Federation of Film Archives Cataloging Commission has recently issued Film Cataloging, designed as a practical and up-to-date guide to the theory and practice of film cataloging. Published by Burt Franklin, 1979. Price: $17.95

• The University Press of Virginia has brought together in the volume Selected Studies in Bibliography (1979, $15) eleven of the articles by G. Thomas Tanselle, published from 1967 through 1979 and treating the theory and tools of bibliography, problems dealing with bindings and papers in descriptive bibliography, and textual criticism and editing.

• The proceedings of the twenty-fourth Allerton Park Institute, 1978, Supervision of Employees in Libraries, edited by Rolland E. Stevens, has been issued by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science. Price: $9.

• Volume 9 of Advances in Librarianship, edited by Michael H. Harris (Academic Pr., 1979, $21), includes six papers: David K. Beminghausen on intellectual freedom; Thomas J. Waldhart and Trudi Bellardo on user fees in publicly funded libraries; Charles W. Evans on paraprofessional library employees; Rosemary and Paul Du Mont on measuring library effectiveness; Abraham Bookstein and Karl Kocher on operations research; and George W. Whitbeck, Jean Major, and Herbert S. White on funding support for library research.

• A new reference work on government documents is Frederic O’Hara’s Guide to Publications of the Executive Branch (Pierian Pr., 1979, $29.50 cloth, $15.00 paper), which has separate chapters treating each of the departments.

• Pierian Press continues its Library Research Guide series with its third volume, James R. Kennedy’s Library Research Guide to Education: Illustrated Search Strategies and Sources. Price: $8.50 cloth, $4.50 paper. ■■

ACADEMIC LIBRARY CONSULTANTS CHOSEN

Twenty academic librarians have been selected to take part in the Consultant Training Program operated by the Office of Management Studies of the Association of Research Libraries. The librarians chosen will serve as consultants to libraries conducting self-studies under the Academic Library Program. One hundred librarians will participate in the program over the next five years.

The consultants who were selected for the first year of the program are: Noreen S. Alldredge, Texas A&M University; Bella Z. Berson, Yale University; Keith M. Cottam, Joint University Libraries, Nashville; Howard W. Dillon, University of Chicago; Joanne R. Euster, Loyola University, New Orleans; Larry Hardesty, De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana; Fred Milton Heath, Radford College, Radford, Virginia; Phyllis E. Jaynes, Dartmouth College; William Goodrich Jones, Northwestern University; Marianne Kozlowski, Southern Illinois University; Charles Lowry, Elon College, North Carolina; Donna L. McCool, Washington State University; Neosha Ann Mackey, Ohio State University; Eleanor A. Montague, University of California, Riverside; Roger H. Parent, American Library Association; Anne Peyton, Dartmouth College; Dennis E. Robison, University of Richmond, Virginia; Grace M. Ross, Library of Congress; Jordan Michael Scepanski, Joint University Libraries, Nashville; and Sara Lou Whildin, Pennsylvania State University. ■■

COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND CITY LIBRARY LINKED

The Napa Community College Library and Napa City—County Library in California have received a Library Services and Construction Act grant to coordinate collection development and merge their circulation systems.

By cooperating in collection development the college library and the city system hope to provide better service and at the same time avoid unnecessary duplication. Under the merged circulation system, patrons at the college will be able to transact business with the public library system directly from the college campus by computer hookup. Public library patrons will for the first time be able to check books out of the college library.

While the basic policies and philosophies of each library will remain intact, they will share a uniform borrower’s card, a delivery service, a common circulation system, and a coordinating service staff. ■■