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

• A discussion of the history of the concept of corporate authorship and “a workable solution to the problem” is presented in Michael Carpenter s Corporate Authorship: Its Role in Library Cataloging. After finding inadequate both the theory that an author originates his material and the theory that an author assumes responsibility for his work, Carpenter proposes a new theory, based on corporate utterances, in his effort to supply a solution to the problem of documents that cannot be identified by an individual personal author’s name. The 1981 hardcover book, no. 34 in Contributions to Libraiy and Information Science, is available through Greenwood Press at $27.50.

• Developing Microform Reading Facilities, by Richard W. Boss and Deborah Raikes (Microform Review, 1981, $39.95), discusses the development of the microform service area. It is designed to aid librarians in selection and preparation of space and purchase of equipment.

• The first issue of the Haworth Press’ Special Collections journal, Theatre and Performing Arts

Collections(vol.l, no.l, Fall 1981), edited by Lee Ash, includes articles on theatre materials in the Library of Congress; the Billy Rose Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library; The Players, New York; The William Seymour Theatre Collection; Princeton University Library; Bibliographic Control; a directory of Performing Arts Resources; and a list of theatre and drama awards, among many other theatre-related contributions. The new journal, which will be published quarterly, will be divided into issues relating to collections in The Arts, The Sciences, The Social Sciences, and The Humanities. Subscriptions are $85 per year. Other titles this volume will be Biochemistry Collections, Gerontology & Geriatrics Collections, and Science/Fiction Collections: Fantasy, Supernatural & Weird Tales.

• The Haworth Press has also announced another quarterly journal, Resource Sharing & Library Networks. This journal, edited by Ward Shaw, is devoted to the practical aspects of setting up, maintaining, and improving all areas of library cooperation, with a particular emphasis on reports of specialized technical and managerial experiments and experiences. Volume 1, no. 1 (Fall 1981) includes “Library Planning for Future Networks” (Nolan Pope); “The Integrated Library System of the Future” (Donald Simpson) and five others. Subscriptions to the journal are $35 for individuals and $45 for libraries, available through The Haworth Press, Inc., 149 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. United States orders, add $1.75 postage & handling; Canadian add $6, outside US and Canada, add $40.

• Online Searching: A Primer‚by Carol H. Fenichel and Thomas H. Hogan (Learned Information, 1981, $12.95 plus $2 postage), is intended as a basic introduction to all facets of online searching. The hardcover book is divided roughly into four parts: the online industry; the mechanics of searching; equipment, the reference process, costs, charging policies, and administrative aspects, and non-bibliographic databases.

•Kelly Warnken’s The Information Brokers: How to Start and Operate Your Own Fee-Based Service is a how-to guide which takes the reader through the process of becoming an information broker, from conducting an initial market study in the community, setting up an office, to getting and keeping clients. The hardcover book, available through R.R. Bowker Company (1981) at $24.95, is the second volume in the Information Management series and a companion to Fee-Based Information Services: A Study of a Growing Industry.

• Personnel Administration in Libraries‚edited by Sheila Creth and Frederick Duda (Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1981, $19.95 plus postage and handling) provides a discussion of effective recruitment, management and utilization of library personnel. Among the chapters are “The Legal Framework of Personnel Management” (Arthur Curley); “Staffing Patterns in Libraries” (Margaret Myers); “Personnel Planning and Utilization” (Sheila Creth); “Recruitment and Selection” (Billy R. Wilkinson); and “Labor Relations” (Frederick Duda).

• The Changing Context of Information: An Introductory Analysis,by K.J. McGarry (Shoe String, 1982, $19.50), aims to encourage beginning students in librarianship and information work to explore some of the “more pressing problems of the social system in which their chosen profession is a vital component,” and to reflect on the major changes that will have transformed society by the time they are in the full maturity of their professional lives.

• The Principles of Librarianship‚ by Donald Urquhart, creator of the National Lending Library for Science and Technology, is neither a history of the NLL nor an autobiography, but a little of both. The intention, says Urquhart, is to draw attention to the ideas which guided the development of the NLL. The 100-page 1981 paperback is available at $10 through Scarecrow Press.

• The Basics of Librarianshipis a beginning text for students of library science. Contents include the functions of different types of libraries; organization, management and training of staff; acquisition of basic library materials; classification and cataloguing; basic library routines; information sources; services to library users; library cooperation; understanding the purposes, uses and production of library publications; and care of libraiy materials. Written by Colin Harrison and Rosemary Oates of Chelmer Institute of Higher Education, the softcover book is distributed at $12.50 by The Oryx Press.

Scientific People Programs, Publications… from Bowker

Coming August 1982!

AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN OF SCIENCE

Physical and Biological Sciences 15th Edition

Edited by Jaques Cattell Press.This new updated edition will contain biographical information on 130,500 leading U.S. and Canadian scientists in 65 major disciplines and 800 sub-disciplines. Biographies are listed alphabetically by surname with entries providing full name, place and date of birth, disciplines, education, memberships, research interests, professional experience, and other pertinent biographical data. ISBN 0-8352-1413-3. August 1982. Approx. 8,400 pp. $495.00, the 7-vol. set

Now Online!

The AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN OF SCIENCE database is now available for online searching through Bibliographic Retrieval Services, Inc. (BRS) and will be available via Dialog Information Services, Inc. (Lockheed) in late Spring 1982. Use the flexibility of online searching to quickly develop lists of potential candidates for faculty, government and industry positions, committee appointments, and lecture engagements by using such criteria as earned degrees, research specialty, alma mater, awards, professional affiliations, geographical location, etc. For more details about AMWS ONLINE contact Ann Gammons, Jaques Cattell Press, 2216 South Industrial Park, P.O. Box 25001 ‚ Tempe, AZ 85282.

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES OF THE UNITED STATES 1982

17th Edition

Compiled and Edited by the Jaques Cattell Press.More than 9,000 research and development facilities and their 6,000 plus parent companies are listed in this newly revised edition. Each alphabetically arranged entry provides name, address, telephone, telex, TWX and cable address; names and titles of chief officers; names and addresses of divisions and subsidiaries; a brief overview of all unclassified R&D activity. Includes a subject index, a geographical index, and a personnel index.

ISBN 0-8352-1360-9. 1982. 763 pp. $110.00

PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCE BOOKS 1876-1982

The first comprehensive bibliography of all books published or distributed in the U.S. during the past 107 years in all areas of science and technology. More than some 165,000 Library of Congress cataloged entries are indexed under some 40,000 LC subject headings in the main Subject Index. Separate Author and Title Indexes provide abbreviated entries and refer the user to the main Subject Index.

ISBN 0-8352-1437-0. August 1982. Approx. 5,800 pp. $260.00, the 4-vol. set until 8/31 /82; $300.00 thereafter

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL BOOKS AND SERIALS IN PRINT 1982

Whatever your professional responsibilities are, pertaining to the retrieval and dissemination of scientific literature in any field, you will find this expanded new edition indispensable. This bibliography lists more than 85,000 books published or distributed in the U.S. and 16,000 serials published worldwide. Books are listed by author, by title, and by 12,500 LC subject headings—with full finding, ordering, and bibliographic data for each book in each index. Serials are indexed by subject and title. Full abstracting, indexing, and micropublisher information is provided.

ISBN 0-8352-1386-2. 1981. 3,124 pp. $72.50

SCIENTIFIC, ENGINEERING. AND MEDICAL SOCIETIES PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT 1980-1981

Fourth Edition

Edited by James M. Kyed and James M. Matarazzo.A unique reference tool, this volume serves as a single source of bibliographic control over the specialized print and non-print material of 370 U.S. and foreign scientific, engineering, and medical societies and related organizations. The arrangement is alphabetical by society with each entry including address, ordering and payment instructions, where applicable, and educational and library discount information. ISBN 0-8352-1403-6. 1981. 626 pp. $65.00

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•In Religious Publishing and Communications, by Judith S. Duke (Knowledge Industry Publications, 1980, $29.95), religious literature has been broadly defined to include any religious communications in the form of books, book clubs, magazines, records and record clubs, and religious programming in radio and television stations. The purpose of the report is to examine the present state and ascertain the future of the religious publications industry.

•All words and meanings “whether they seem elegant or not” qualify for inclusion in The Facts on File Dictionary of Microcomputers ‚ by Anthony Chandor (Facts on File, 1981, $14.95). This hardcover book contains 2,500 entries of terms relating to microcomputers and their use.

•“Understanding the role of minicomputers in a distributed system is crucial to effective

Jdecision-making,” writes Audrey N. Grosch in Minicomputers in Libraries, 1981-82: The Era of Distributed Systems. The volume (Knowledge Industry Publications, 1982, $34.50 hardcover, $27.50 softcover) describes available hardware, software and applications of minicomputers and the larger-capacity machines known as “superminis.” Minicomputers includes a directory of 186 installed systems in the United States and abroad. Each entry lists the system name, hardware, software, applications, developer and type of system, along with the address, telephone number, and person to contact for further information.

• Decision Making for Library Management,by Michael R.W. Bommer and Ronald W. Chorba (Knowledge Industry Publications, 1982, $34.50 hardcover, $27.50 softcover), is a result of efforts to explore the feasibility of developing a comprehensive approach to decision support for managers of academic and special libraries. This book proposes a data base approach to this issue as the authors construct a decision support system (DSS) using recent advances in computer technology to assist the decision-making capabilities of management.

•Authored by Charles H. Davis and Gerald W. Lundeen, Illustrative Computer Programming for Libraries: Selected Examples for Information Specialists (revised and expanded 2d ed.) emphasizes structured programming, and taking advantage of the Programming Language/One (PL/1) language. Neither abstract nor theoretical, the graded text has examples of programs that can be used as they are, or modified to suit the puiposes of instructors, practitioners, or qualified students. The hardcover (Contributions to Librarianship and Information Science, No. 39, 1981) is available from Greenwood Press at $15.

• The Retrieval of Information in the Humanities and the Social Sciences: Problems as Aids to Learning,edited by Thomas P. Slavens (Marcel Dekker, 1981, $29.75), acquaints library science students with the broad spectrum of reference materials available in these fields. Chapters are arranged by subjects: anthropology, art, business and economics, education, geography, history, literature, music, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology. Within each chapter is a list of questions which can be answered from library materials.

• The purpose of the survey Investigative Methods in Library and Information Science: An Introduction is “to describe, straightforwardly, the major investigative techniques relevant to research and evaluation in the fields of library and information services and to indicate the applications for which such techniques seem most appropriate.” The 1981 hardcover is available at $30.50, plus $2 for shipping and handling, from Information Resources Press. ■■