ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 409 librarian for public services at the Underwood Law Library, Southern M ethodist University, Dallas. Lynn Wishart is now assistant law librarian for research services in the Georgetown University Law Center Library, Washington. Lisa Woo has been appointed Chinese bibliog- rapher/cataloger at the University of Pittsburgh. RETIREMENTS Mary Jane Mitchell, director of the James White Library at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, for the past 21 years, retired on July 29. Hilda Mudd, director of library resources at Brescia College, Owensboro, Kentucky, retired August 7 after 32 years of service. She assisted in the planning of the present library building and will continue as archivist and collection develop­ ment librarian. Marion Murdoch retired as head of the Ac­ quisitions Department at the University of Cali­ fornia, Berkeley, on October 9 after 38 years of service. DEATHS Marie Hamilton Law, form er dean of the Drexel University Library School, former direc­ tor of the Drexel Library, and a member of the Drexel faculty for 27 years, died October 6 in Baltimore after a long illness. Law joined the Drexel faculty as an instructor in the undergradu­ ate library science curriculum in 1922. She be­ came vice-director of the library school in 1925 and was named dean of the school and director of th e library in 1937. U nder h er guidance the Drexel library science program changed from an undergraduate to a graduate degree program in 1949, the year of her retirement. George A. Schwegmann, Jr., retired chief of th e Union Catalog Division of the Library of Congress, died on September 28. RECEIVED (Selected items will be reviewed in future is­ sues of College & Research Libraries.) • A report by Kendon Stubbs for the Commit­ tee on ARL Statistics, The ARL Library Index and Quantitative Relationships in the ARL (As­ sociation of Research Libraries, November, 1980), explains the derivation and implications of the ARL Library Index in detail. • In Power, Politics and Print: The Publica­ tion o f the British Museum Catalog, 1181-1900 (Linnet Books, 1981, $17.50), Barbara MeCrim- mon recounts for the first time the struggles of Edward Augustus Bond and Richard Garnett, the librarians responsible for this catalog—the first national library catalog to be published and there­ fore made available to other libraries. • The purpose of Progress in Communication Sciences (Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1980, $32.50), the second in an annual series, is to “provide the reader with high quality state of the art reviews of thought and research.” Each re­ view focuses on one or more of the following: 1) information, information transfer, and information systems; 2) the uses and effects of communica­ tions; and 3) the control and regulation of com­ munications and information. • “Most” of the online search facilities avail­ able have been described in a general fashion “so that readers may acquire an overall view of the range available to them” in Online Searching: An Introduction (Butterworth & Co., 1980, $31.95) Publications by W. M. Henry, J. A. Leigh, L. A. Tedd and P. W. Williams. A general overview of online searching, including the scope of services and databases and equipment required; a detailed de­ scription of search facilities and techniques, in­ cluding information about database structure; a discussion of the role of the intermediary; details of management aspects; and a description of aids and methods for education and training. • Management o f Library Networks: Policy A n a lysis, Im p lem en ta tio n and C o n tro l, by William R. Rouse and Sandra H. Rouse (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1980, $25.95), presents a methodology for the analysis of resource-sharing library networks and illustrates how this meth­ odology has been applied in several case studies. • An Overview o f Videodisc Technology and Some Potential Applications in the Library, In ­ formation, and Instructional Sciences, by R. Kent Wood and Robert D. Woolley (ERIC Clearing­ house, 1980), is based upon the Utah State Uni­ versity Videodisc Innovation Projects and in­ cludes descriptions of major marketed videodisc systems and those soon to be marketed. • C ataloging o f A u d io visu a l M aterials: A Manual Based on AACR 2 by Nancy B. Olsen (M innesota Scholarly Press, 1981, $17.50 softcover) presents photographs of a variety of audiovisual items typically ordered by libraries. Each photograph is accompanied by a compre­ hensive explanation for correct cataloging. • A collection of 14 essays written by Raynard Coe Swank between 1944 and 1974 have been 410 edited by David W. Heron under the title A Uni­ fyin g Influence: Essays o f Raynard Coe Swank (The Scarecrow Press, 1981, $13.50). Swank was director of libraries at Stanford University and the University of Oregon and a professor and dean at the University of California School of Li­ brary and Information Studies at Berkeley. • The proceedings of the August 1980 Austral­ ian Advisory Council on Bibliographical Services (AACOBS) in Sydney have b ee n published as Networks Study no. 16 in the Development of Resource Sharing Networks Series of the National Library of Australia (1980). Bibliographical Ser­ vices to the Nation: The Next Decade, edited by D. H. B o rch a rd t and John T haw ley for th e AACOBS W orking P arty on B ibliography, is available at $9.75 from the Sales and Subscrip­ tions Unit, National Library of Australia. • Defending Intellectual Freedom: The Library and the Censor (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science, No. 32) is a collection of previously published essays by Eli M. Oboler, available at $22.95 through Greenwood Press, W estport, C onnecticut (1980). O boler, former university librarian at Idaho State University in Pocatello, examines political and “moral” censor­ ship and attempts to “explain the ways librarians and those interested in libraries can combat the censor and fulfill their responsibility to the read­ ing public.” • The proceedings of the 1980 joint Aslib/IIS/ LA Conference at Sheffield have been compiled by The L ib rary Association, London, in The Nationwide Provision and Use o f Inform ation, available at $31.25 from the Oryx Press, Phoenix, Arizona (1981). • Rudolf Engelbarts’ bibliography, Librarian Authors (McFarland & Company, 1981, $21.95), lists names and works of 108 men and women who were (or are) authors as well as outstanding librarians. The book is divided into th ree sec­ tions: the first lists six men who lived during the period of 1600 to 1800; the second covers the 19th century and the first half of the 20th; and the third discusses the contemporary scene. • A “library survival kit” for graduate students titled Keys to Library Research on the Graduate Level: A Guide to Guides by Harvey R. Gover of Tarleton State U niversity (University Press of America, 1981, $5.25) is intended to enable stu­ dents to fully utilize campus library resources and to give them a sense of independence in their li­ brary work. • A task force of the Bibliographic Service D e­ velopm ent Program of the Council on Library Resources has published Requirements Statement fo r the Name Authority File Service (April 1981). This docum ent “describes the background and rationale for a name authority file service for the nation’s libraries, and the steps being taken to make that service a reality.” • The City University of New York Report o f the Task Force on Libraries (December 1980) is the result of 16 months of interm ittent study and discussion. While some important revisions have been made that take account of comments and criticisms from those who read the preliminary draft of March 3, 1980, the basic findings and rec o m m en d a tio n s of th a t r e p o r t are now reaffirm ed h ere . T h e re p o rt recom m ends “ a phased, five-year developm ent program to or­ ganize and develop a unified library system in which the college libraries will retain local au­ tonomy and the (city) University will provide funds and leadership for University-wide programs.” • V iew d a ta an d V id e o tex t, 1980-81: A Worldwide Report (Knowledge Industry Publica­ tions, 1980, $75), is the transcript of Viewdata ’80, the first world conference on viewdata, vid­ eotex and teletex held in London in March 1980. • Theory and Practice in Library Education: The T ea ch in g -L ea rn in g P rocess, by Joe Moorhead of the School of Library and Informa­ tion Science, State University of New York, Al­ bany (Libraries Unlimited, 1980, $17.50 U .S., $21 elsewhere), is “an exploration of a perennial issue in professional education generally and li­ b rary ed u catio n specifically: th e p ro b lem of theory and practice in the instructional process.” The study addresses the problem of theory and practice in selected professions such as medicine, engineering, law, social work; examines library education specifically; looks at modes of instruc­ tio n in lib ra ry ed u catio n and th e m erits of library-centered library education. • Grant Money and How to Get It: A Hand­ book fo r Librarians, by Richard W. Boss, senior consultant at Information Systems, Inc., Mary­ land (R. R. Bowker & Co., 1980, $19.95), at­ tem pts to assist librarians and library staff in competing for grant funds. • Building Library Collections: Policies and Practices in Academ ic Libraries, by Hugh F. Cline and Loraine T. Sinnott (D. C. Heath and Company, 1981) analyzes collection development policies and practices in seven academic libraries, drawing on two theoretical perspectives: analyses of the structure and function of complex organiza­ tions and analyses of resource allocation. • The University Library in the United States: Its O rigins and D evelo p m en t (U n iv ersity of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, $25) by Arthur Ham­ lin, professor and director of libraries, emeritus, at Temple University, is written for the academi­ cian outside the library profession who is a user of libraries and interested in them. • In The Sources o f W estern Literacy: The Middle Eastern Civilizations (Greenwood Press, 1980, $25), author Felix Reichmann, professor em eritu s at C ornell U niversity, p rese n ts the Middle Eastern influences on European culture. A ntiquity is rep rese n ted by M esopotamia and Egypt; the Middle Ages are covered by Byzan­ tium and the Arab Empire. 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