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

• Studies in Creative Partnership: Federal Aid to Public Libraries During the New Deal, edited by Daniel R. Ring (Scarecrow, 1980, $8.50), examines “the accomplishments of the Work Projects Administration in the public libraries of New York City, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Baltimore, and Minneapolis.”

• The personnel policies of 52 academic and public libraries were examined for Personnel Policies in Libraries, edited by Nancy Patton Van Zant (Neal-Schuman, 1980, $19.95). In addition to a cross-section of policies, the results of a “survey of over 1000 libraries offers insight into current status and trends of personnel policy-making and practice in libraries.”

• In The Library in the University: Observations on a Service (Westview, 1980, $22) Norman Highman, university librarian, Bristol University, surveys the field of academic librarianship, “defines the academic librarian’s place within the university, and puts the role of the academic library into perspective for the future.”

• The R. R. Bowker Co. has published a guide to Grant Money and How to Get It: A Handbook for Librarians (1980, $19.95) written by Richard W. Boss, former director of libraries at Princeton University and now senior consultant at Information Systems Consultants, Inc.

• A survey of health sciences librarianship, from the use of handwritten cards in bibliographic control to online access to computerized data bases, is provided by Jack Key and Thomas Keys in Classics and Other Selected Readings for Medical Librarians (Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., 1980, $24.50). This compilation of papers provides an overview of the health sciences field during an era of great change.

• Advances in Data Base Management, vol. 1, (Heyden, 1980) “deals with all stages of the life cycle of a data base management system, from original planning and design through ongoing operation and future developments.’ Edited by Thomas A. Rullo, Advances is part of the Heyden Advances Library in EDP Management series.

• A practical guide for librarians interested in starting or improving library instruction is available from Neal-Schuman. Bibliographic Instruction: A Handbook by Beverly Renford and Linnea Hendrickson (1980, $14.95) provides step-by-step plans for developing all phases of library instruction programs.

• Serial Publications: Their Place and Treatment in Libraries, 3d ed., (ALA, 1980, $20) by Andrew D. Osborn “updates wherever appropriate the facts about the character and management of serials, but its emphasis is upon succinctly describing newer developments like OCLC, CON- SER, and AACR2 and elaborating on the new opportunities they make possible in serials work. ”

• Edmund F. SantaVicca, Department of Library Science, Peabody College, Vanderbilt, has developed a practical tool for those interested in developing their reference skills. Reference Skills in the Humanities (Scarecrow, 1980, $9) “includes more than 1,000 exercises designed to develop reference skills in the school, public, academic and/or special library setting.”

• Events in the revolutionary world of videotext/viewdata/teletext are covered in Viewdata and Videotext, 1980-81: A Worldwide Report available from Knowledge Industry Pubs, for $75. The nearly 50 authoritative papers were presented at “Viewdata ’80, First World Conference on Viewdata, Videotext and Teletext” held in London, March 26-28, 1980.

• The problem of effective decision-making in the management of academic libraries is the topic of Information for Academic Library Decision Making: The Case for Organizational Information Management by Charles McClure (Greenwood, 1980, $23.95).

• Developing Career Information Centers: A Guide to Collection Building and Counseling,edited by Dr. Sara Fine (Neal-Schuman, 1980, $17.95), is an outgrowth of the 1978 USOE institute held at the University of Pittsburgh on this topic. The eleven chapters cover career- development theories, counseling techniques, materials selection and program evaluation.

• The Modern Library Practice Series, 3d ed., by J. McRee Elrod (Scarecrow, 1980, $29.50) is comprised of five programmed instruction units “designed to present the basic operations of descriptive cataloging, choice and assignment of main entry, added entry, subject headings, classification and filing both in alphabetical catalogs and shelf-lists. The new edition is current as of 1980.”

• Help for the librarian who must be ready to apply AACR'2 is offered by Christa F.B. Hoffmann in Getting Ready for AACR2: The Cataloged s Guide (Knowledge Industry, 1980, $24.50). Getting Ready is not a critique, but a practical guide containing more than 100 pages of cataloging examples.

• The evolution of American academic librar- ianship over a period of 45 years is recalled in Ellsworth on Ellsworth: An Unchronological, Mostly True Account of Some Moments of Contact Between “Library Science” and Me, Since Our Confluence in 1931, With Appropriate Sidelights by Ralph E. Ellsworth (Scarecrow, 1980, $9.50).

• John R. Rizzo, professor of management at Western Michigan University and editor of the Journal of Library Administration, has written a guide, Management for Librarians (Greenwood, 1980, $35), which covers such topics as organizational effectiveness and efficiency, accountability, planning and control, motivation, group behavior, decision-making, and performance appraisal.

• A “study of the strategic decisions that shape the provision of public library services in the United States” has been conducted by Malcolm Getz, associate professor of economics at Vanderbilt University. Public Libraries: An Economic View is available from The John Hopkins University Press (1980, $12.50). ■■