ACRL College & Research Libraries News

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

•The Bibliographic Control of Official Publications‚ edited by John E. Pemberton (Pergamon, 1982, $25), contains eleven articles concerned with the establishment of a comprehensive system for classifying and arranging official government publications. The emphasis is on British Commonwealth countries, but other foreign documents are covered as well as U.S. and international publications.

•Those who catalog cartographic materials deal with a wide assortment of information, authority problems, and materials of unusual shape. Cartographic Materials: A Manual of Interpretation for AACR2 was prepared by the Anglo-American Cataloguing Committee for Cartographic Materials and is available from the American Library Association (1982, $40). This book includes all necessary rules for description, either repeated from AACR2 or elaborating on rules from it. It indicates preferred applications of AACR2, together with the practices of the national libraries and archives of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, and the United States. All rules are crossreferenced with AACR2. Nine appendices cover topics ranging from determining the scale of a map to treating map series and geographical atlases.

• Computing in LASER: Regional Library Cooperation‚ by Jean M. Plaister (Oryx, 1983, $15), is not about laser printing, but is an account of the cooperative services of libraries in the southeast of England (London and South Eastern Library Region). This publication describes LASER’S development and their projects to “take advantage of computer technology as it became a realistic tool for the library user.”

•Managing the Serials Explosion: The Issues for Publishers and Libraries,by David C. Taylor (Knowledge Industry, 1982, $34.50 cloth, $27.50 paper), examines some questions of serials management, why they are considered difficult, and some of the choices librarians have in dealing with serials as a form of communication.

•Online Search Strategies,edited by Ryan E. Hoover (Knowledge Industry, 1982, $37.50 cloth, $29.50 paper) contains practical tips and hints on the effective use of bibliographic databases and search systems, written by a collection of sixteen authors experienced in the search techniques of various disciplines. The book does not claim to be a text on the basics of searching and assumes that the reader is familiar with the topic and has a background in library or information science. It focuses on the publicly available databases of four major American services—BRS, DIALOG, MEDLARS, and SDC. Sample searches illustrate database and search system features.

• Options for the 80s‚edited by Michael D. Kathman and Virgil F. Massman (JAI, 1982, $125), is a two-volume set containing the proceedings of ACRL’s Second National Conference in Minneapolis, October 1-4, 1981. The five theme papers by Thomas Patrick Melady, Robert M. Rosenzweig, Daniel Sullivan, Paul A. Lacey, and Beverly Lynch are printed in full, as well as the 56 contributed papers and the concluding panel discussion. Abstracts of the contributed papers appeared in C&RL News, July/August 1981, pp. 229-241.

•Planning the Library Instruction Program,by Patricia Senn Breivik (American Library Association, 1982, $10 paper), offers step-by-step procedures designed to articulate and support a program of library instruction appropriate for academic, school, or public libraries. Stressing the importance of shaping the instructional program to fit the needs of the groups to be served, the author details methods for quality instruction that are easily accessible.

•Reference Service and Library Education,compiled by Edwin S. Gleaves and John Mark Tucker (Lexington Books, 1982, $29.95), is a festschrift in honor of Frances Neel Cheney. Part I of the book is devoted to personal perspectives of Cheney’s life; Part II deals with current trends in reference services; Part III is a history of library education; and Part IV contains an extensive bibliography of works by and about Frances Neel Cheney.

•What books and materials should a novice librarian select for purchase? Selecting Materials for Libraries‚ second edition, by Robert N. Broadus (H.W. Wilson, 1981, $16), focuses on collection development in the small to medium-sized library, and provides basic information on how to evaluate and select materials.

•Access to information services has changed dramatically with the introduction of computer hardware and software and new communications equipment. The fifteen articles contained in Strategies for Meeting the Information Needs of Society in the Year 2000‚ compiled by Martha Boaz (Libraries Unlimited, 1981, $22.50), address the problems of changing technology and suggest plans for supplying information to an increasingly complex society.

•The Welcoming Address in Women and Library Management, edited by Darlene E. Weingand (Pierian Press, 1982, $16.95) is a salute to participants at a conference on library management held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The address, presented by Joyce M. Erdman, points out findings of the Task Force on the Status of Women that clearly indicate that women have not been fully integrated into the academic structure. The purpose of the conference was to explore the benefits that women can bring to the field of academic librarianship and library management. Peter G. Hamon spoke on the male point of view, while the other featured speakers were women. ■ ■