College and Research Libraries 490 I College & Research Libraries • November~ 1966 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The volume here under review-edited with an introduction by Hallie Beachem Brooks and published in an attractive format-brings together the papers presented at the con- ference and the discussions which followed them. The various papers presented at the con- ference provide much information, and much food for thought; they merit a care- ful reading by all who are concerned with and interested in the South and things Southern. Monroe C. Neff (North Carolina State Department of Community Colleges) considers those forces and factors which will provide "A Sound Environment for an Evolving Social Institution." Lawrence L. Durisch (Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville) and Reed Sarratt (Southern Ed- ucation Reporting Service, Nashville) de- fine the South in terms of her social-eco- nomic-cultural and educational aspects. Archie L. McNeal (University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida) describes and anal- yzes the role of the library in relation to the South's social-economic-cultural prob- lems. Virginia Lacy Jones (Atlanta Univer- sity school of library service) defines the role of the library in relation to the South's educational problems, and suggests that li- brarians "need to go 'way out' at times and perhaps appear to be impractical, to get our feet off the ground-perhaps to attempt the impossible with verve and spirit and faith." Ruth E. Warncke (deputy executive director of the American Library Associa- tion) provides an evaluative summary of the conference, pointing out its strengths and weaknesses. Leon Carnovsky (graduate library school, University of Chicago) delivered the con- ference's banquet address, in which he dealt with "Libraries and the International Scene." Thus, while the conference was concerned appropriately and primarily with problems of the American South, its plan- ners wisely chose to include a place on the program for a consideration of the world beyond the South. In The Role of the Library in Improving Education in the South we have a thought- ful and thought-provoking consideration of an important topic. Both those who attend- ed the conference and those who were not so fortunate will welcome the publication of these proceedings.-John David Mar- shall, University of Georgia. A Survey of the University of Delhi Li- brary. By Carl M. White. Delhi: Planning Unit, University of Delhi, 1965. xvi + 184 p. 6 tables . The University of Delhi, one of the younger universities in India, was incor- porated in 1922. The major growth of the university and its library, however, has taken place since 1939, and particularly after 1942 when Shri S. Das Gupta assumed the post of librarian following a period of training under S. R. Ranganathan. The de- velopment and expansion of the university since that time has been remarkable. From 1945-1965, the enrollment increased 840 per cent, reaching a high of 29,550 in the academic year 1964-65. The book collec- tions in the same period increa.sed by 462 per cent, and the total expenditures for the library 995 per cent. A new library build- ing was erected and occupied in 1958 and now houses 168,263 volumes. The total book resources of the university, including the departmental and college libraries, total 872,034 volumes. A brilliant future is an- ticipated for the university as it assumes an increasing role of educational leadership in India and becomes an important cultural link between India and other countries. This survey was made at the request of the University of Delhi, acting on the sug- gestion of Professor S. Das Gupta, the li- brarian, by Carl M. White, who served as a Ford Foundation consultant during the period of the survey. It is a penetrating study backed by an impressive amount of supporting data in the form of statistics and opinions from faculty and librarians on various aspects of the library problem. Dr. White brings to the analysis of the library's needs the knowledge and perspective gained through wide experience as direc- tor of three major libraries in the United States-the University of North Carolina, the University of Illinois, and Columbia University. A significant feature of the study is the evidence of wide consultation with concerned individuals in the university com- munity. Suggestions and opinions gathered by means of questionnaires and conferences lend weight to the evidence presented and to the final recommendations which follow each chapter and are summarized at the end. The survey covers in detail primarily the libraries under the jurisdiction of the Uni- versity of Delhi librarian. This excludes the libraries of the thirty-five constituent and affiliated colleges of the university. In dis- cussion of over-all planning, however, these are brought into the total picture, and a separate study of the relationship of the college libraries to the main library is rec- ommended. The college libraries, with a total of 631,000 volumes, are under the administration of the individual colleges and ordinarily serve only their own clien- tele. It appears from one of the tables that the campus colleges spent 770,511 rupees on their libraries in 1964-65, as compared with 798,448 which was spent on the uni- versity library. On the other hand, a com- parison of the distribution of use made by students of all the libraries, indicates that 52.9 per cent relied principally on the uni- versity library as compared with 21.9 per- cent who reported the college libraries as having their principal patronage. In a long range program to bring the college libraries into the main stream of library development in the university, several suggestions are made. The first is a cooperative project under which the college libraries would provide a catalog record for a cenb·al union catalog in the university library for every book acquired. This would seem to be an absolute necessity in order that maximum use be made of the book resources of the university. A second recommendation is for a coordinated administration of the college and university libraries. A third recommen- dation, while a more radical departure from the present arrangements, may have special appeal in view of the increased enrollments expected and the demand for more space for books and services. This is to build a centrally located library to serve all under- graduate students. This would offer better book collections, to be used by more peo- ple, less duplication, a wider range of ser- vices, and the means of providing a more competent staff. Caution is recommended in the creation Book Reviews I 491 of departmental libraries, on the grounds that if these are to be generously provided with books and adequately staffed, they become too costly and in the end will un- dermine the proper role of the university library itself. Instead, it is suggested that the university consider the divisional library idea, placing the collections in broad sub- ject divisions, "creating units large enough to be viable, manning each unit with li- brarians with special knowledge of the lit- erature." It is pointed out that the advance- ment of knowledge and the development of new fields has blurred the lines which for- merly separated departments . of study, mak- ing the narrowly defined unit no longer efficient. To carry out the suggestion of the divi- sional approach, a separate science library building is recommended and the conver- sion of the main library into two divisions, one for the social sciences and one for the humanities. The physical location of the de- partments of science is favorable to the idea of a separate library facility, and it is pre- dicted that such a unit "would make pos- sible the creation of a science library of national importance." The main library building could be remodeled to become a "scholar's workshop" for the social sciences and the humanities. Several fundamental recommendations are made relating to the government of the university library, all of which seem neces- sary to the creation of a centrally admin- istered university system of libraries. Among them are the following: ( 1) making the university library official owner of all li- brary materials, however acquired by the university; ( 2) establishment of · biblio- graphical control over all such materials; ( 3) formally delegating the powers of management now vested in the Library Committee to the librarian and making him answerable directly to the vice-chancellor. Dr. White begins his study with the premise "that library service of high qu~lity is the heart of an academic program of high quality." The report is frank and factual in its evaluation of what is needed to achieve this end, and at the same time pays tribute to the substantial foundations that have been laid.-Rudolph Gjelsness, Uni- versity of Arizona.