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crl-14971	Bailey, Charles W.	Challenges in Indexing Electronic Text and Images (Book Review)	1995-05-01	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1169	56	47	The book offers six sections: (1) a su- perb recent history of French university libraries by the able current inspector- general of French libraries, Denis Pallier; (2) a description of the modern context of the French university and of its infor- mation service, both library and nonli- brary by Pierre Carbone; (3) an analysis of the user community, both university and general public, by Renoult himself (he directs planning for the Bibliotheque Nationale de France) and Maggy Peyeril of Montpellier's library; (4) a descrip- tion of French library infrastructure- organization, buildings, administration, classification, personnel-in essays by several authors, with descriptions of library service approaches which to foreigners can sound both familiar (Computerization Is under Way) and endearingly French (La Fonction Patri- moniale); (5) a section on networking giv- ing the French approach to dealing with what every librarian elsewhere knows, that computers and the information that they offer are here to stay, and that they must and may be dealt with effectively and even happily; and, finally, (6) a for- eign, comparative perspective, including (a) an introspective essay on Germany by Gernot Gable of Cologne, (b) a wist- ful, grass is always greener report on a tour of modern German library build- ings by the French librarian Marie- France Bisbrouck, (c) a startlingly bleak current assessment of university librar- ies in the United Kingdom, by Derek Law (King's College, London), and (d) an optimistic and encouraging account of a Dutch approach so successful that it So Daniel Renault's book-a tightly drawn compilation of essays by leading thinkers from France and other European countries-can provide back- ground indispensable for understanding both the current general travails of French university libraries and a few of the problems now dawning for university li- braries in the United States and elsewhere, in networking and other areas.	cache/crl-14971.pdf	txt/crl-14971.txt