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

• The ALA World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services (ALA, 1980, $85) is a new one-volume guide to librarianship. The volume is alphabetically arranged, and the opening article appropriately is “Academic Libraries,” with Beverly P. Lynch, Billy R. Wilkinson, William H. Webb, C. James Schmidt, Richard J. Talbot, Elaine Sloan, and Clyde C. Walton as authors of its several sections. A new feature in the encyclopedia is a “parallel index” in which index entries are shown in the margin throughout the volume rather than as a separate section at the end.

• Random Recollections of an Anachronismis the title of Keyes D. Metcalfs autobiography, the first volume of which has been published and traces his career through 1937 when he became library director at Harvard. Published by Readex Books. Price: $14.95.

• March of Library Science,with V. Benkatap- paiah as general editor, is a festschrift honoring the Indian library science educator, P. H. Kaula. The contents cover a wide range of subjects, with an international cast of authors, including, from the U.S., Edward G. Holley, Nasser Sharify, Jesse H. Shera, James B. Childs, John T. Thomas, Doris Cruger Dale, Dana Roth, Johannes L. Dewton, Frederic R. Hartz, Martin Sable, and John F. Harvey. Available in the U.S. from Advent Books, Inc., 141 E. 44th St., Suite 809, New York, NY 10017. Price: $37.50.

• The Conant Report: A Study of the Education of Librarians,by Ralph W. Conant (MIT Press, 1980, $17.50), is described as “the first comprehensive examination of library education since the Williamson Report of 1921 and 1923.” The author of this ALA-sponsored study is president of Unity College in Maine.

• Librarians as Professionals: The Occupations Impact on Library Work Arrangements,by William Joseph Reeves (Lexington Books, 1980, $19.95), explores the “paradoxical relationship between the standards of librarianship and library service established by library associations, on the one hand, and conditions of work as they exist in most libraries, on the other.” Its objective “was to identify circumstances and conditions that fostered occupational control over work in organizational settings.”

• Aslib Occasional Publication No. 23, Career Patterns and the Occupational Image, by Margaret Slater (1980, $22.50), presents a study of the profession of librarianship that focuses on career patterns of librarians, their mobility, and their image—including public image, self-image, and employer image.

• Edward R. Johnson and Stuart R. Mann’s Organization Development for Academic Libraries: An Evaluation of the Management Review and Analysis Program (Greenwood, 1980, $19.95) analyzes the benefits and limitations of library self-assessment, concentrating on the experience of MRAP. The book shows the impact of MRAP on ten libraries in which it was applied.

• The Proceedings from the 2nd Southeastern Conference on Approaches to Bibliographic Instruction, March 22-23, 1979, held at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, have recently been published. Cerise Oberman- Soroka is the editor, and the volume includes the nine papers that were presented. Available from the Treasurer, College of Charleston Library Associates, Robert Scott Small Library, Charleston, SC 29401. Price: $7. Make check payable to: College of Charleston Foundation, Inc.

• Gerald Jahoda and Judith Schiek Braunagel’s The Librarian and Reference Queries: A Systematic Approach (Academic Press, 1980, $12) is intended to provide a framework for a “decisionmaking model of the reference process” and is designed as a text for library school students.

• Donald Davinson’s Reference Service (K. G. Saur, 1980, $20) provides a summary of this aspect of librarianship from a British point of view.

• A new volume in the Clive Bingley-K. G. Saur Outlines of Modern Librarianship series is

D. A. Kemp’s Current Awareness Services. Price: $10.

• Australian Official Publications,edited by D. H. Borchardt (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1979, A$10.50), presents “an overview of the publications which currently emanate from the three tiers of administrative authority that govern Australia: the federal government, the state governments, and the municipal or shire or county governments.”

• The Annual Report of the American Rare, Antiquarian, and Out-of-Print Book Trade, 19781 1979, edited by Denis Carbonneau, “is the first of a projected series whose purpose is to give a picture of the antiquarian book trade for the year.” It is divided into six sections: auctions and auctioneering; review of specialized areas; libraries and librarianship; professional associations; conservation of material; and trends in bibliography. Available from: BCAR Publications, P.O. Box 50, Cooper Station, New York, NY 10003. Price: $15.95 cloth, $9.95 paper, plus $1 postage and handling.

• R. E. Bellamy’s Private Presses ćr Publishing in England Since 1945 (K. G. Saur, 1980, $33) has three objectives: “to examine the varied nature of private publishing and printing presses in England; to describe the way in which they have developed during the last thirty years; and to discover what their relationships are with the commercial printing and publishing industries.”

• Michael Lane and Jeremy Booth’s Books and

Publishers: Commerce against Culture in Postwar Britain (Lexington Books, 1980, $16.95) deals “with the decisive issue book publishers have today and always ultimately faced: which books to publish” and then tries “to establish how changing external constraints and pressures interact with the inner workings of publishing institutions and what consequences this is having both for publishers themselves and the world of culture they serve.”

• Scarecrow’s newest addition to its Great Bibliographers series is number 5: Roy Stokes’ appreciation of Michael Sadleir, 1888-1957(Scarecrow, 1980, $8.50).

• A Study of Library Cooperatives, Networks,

and Demonstration Projects, by Ruth J. Patrick, Joseph Casey, and Carol M. Novalis (K. G. Saur, 1980, $39), is a two-volume report evaluating “the impact and effectiveness of two USOE administered grant Programs to develop and improve library and information services”: HEA II- B and Title III of LSCA. ■■