College and Research Libraries 564 I College & Research Libraries • November 1976 Here Are the Facts Your Patrons Need to Evaluate America's Major Corporations CORPORATE PROFILES FOR EXECUTIVES AND INVESTORS 1978-1977 EDITION It's the one comprehensive sourceboQk for anyone doing business with the top 2,000 public corporations-and for any-, : one hoping to do so in the future. Gives you four separate ways to locate each corporation: alphabetically, geoQraphi- cally, by principal industrial activ1ty and by Standard Industrial Classification ' (SIC). Newly expanded and updated. EXCLUSIVE I EXECUTIVE SEARCH FIRMS- name, address, telephone number INVALUABLE INFORMATION FOR CAREER OPPORTUNITIES! • Unique and concise metl1od of , presenting individual company data • Corporate addresses and phone numbers : • Names and titles of key operating executives . • Sales by product group and international op- erations · · · • Five-year review of annual sales, earnings per share, net earnings, dividends, interna-. tional sales ' •Two-year r:eview of assets, liabilities, debt, interest, number of shares, stock range, etc. 384 pagea • 8~" x 11" SBN 528-84715-3 1111.115 a/ao available In aoft cover 528-84715-5 114.95 Please order from your Library Wholeaaler ~Rand M9Nally P.O. Box 7600 • Chicago, Ill. 60680 Donald V. Black and Carlos A. Cuadra have developed this 1975 edition by merg- ing, updating, and expanding material found in both 1972 publications. Descrip- tions of consortia that went out of existence by 1974 were deleted, and data on over a dozen new cooperative groups were added. The resulting volume contains entries for 264 consortia, providing for each the fol- lowing information: name and date of founding; geographical area served; mem- bers and dates of joining; purposes and ob- jectives; current activities; projected activ- ities; conditions of participation; annual budget and sources of funding; staffing; ad- visory boards; publications; location of headquarters; and contact person. There are several signi£cant academic library networks that are not listed in this second edition (e.g., P ALINET, SLICE, SOLINET, the SUNY library system, and the Research Libraries Group). Similarly, entries for some organizations are over four years old and now obsolete. Nevertheless, this book can be useful to those interested in learning about cooperative groups. In- dexes to consortia by activities (ranging from acquisitions to workshops), by names of organizations (including parent bodies and acronyms), and by geographical areas served simplify the location of information. Unfortunately, this new Directory of Aca- demic Library Consortia lacks the detailed analyses of data, comparisons, and statis- tical tables found in both the first edition and its supplement.-Leonard Grundt, Pro- fessor and Chairperson, Library Depart- ment, Nassau Community College, Garden City, New York. Media in Higher Education, The Critical Issues: Ideas, Analysis, Confrontation. Pullman, Wash.: Information Futures, 1976. 111p. $13.85. In February 1976 Information Futures sponsored a "conference-seminar" on media in higher education. The purpose of the meeting was to identify and discuss-not solve-problems in the field of media in higher education. This publication is a re- sult of that conference. Most of the nine papers in this collec- tion cover familiar ground; seven papers deal with "issues," and there are introduc- t X tory and concluding ones. Margaret Chis- holm's introductory paper defines media programs in terms of what media people do; she lists ten functions that characterize an optimum media program. W. C. Meier- henry considers "trends and pressures which have molded and shaped institution- al programs in the present and past" (p.47). He finds eleven reasons why great- er use of media in higher education has not occurred but considers the growth of inter- est in individualized instruction (exempli- fied by Sam Postlethwait anq Fred S. Kel- ler) an encouraging sign for the role of media in the future. Charles Vlcek and Da- vid M. Crossman take opposite stands on the thorny question of integrated library/ media programs; Vlcek argues the combina- tion is doomed to fail, while Crossman stoutly defends it. Vlcek's paper is heady stuff, even for the author (who found it de- sirable to describe the position advanced in his paper as overstated for the purpose of argument). Following this, Donald Riecks and John A . . Davis consider central- ized media services versus decentralized media services; Riecks surveys the structure of several large-campus media programs and concludes that centralization is "the most logical method of providing the inter- relation of media support elements while making optimum use of available resources" (p.69), while Davis argues that "control of the media of instruction by any single agency is likely to be inimical to the goal of campus-wide improvement of instruc- tion" (p.82). Gerald R. Brong (the issue editor) contributes two papers, one on in- formation center management and the other on budgeting for media programs. The con- cluding paper, by Amo De Bernardis, ex- horts media personnel to give "dynamic leadership" to the improvement of instruc- tion. The theme of "improving" education is, in fact, a sort of conference keynote; when distinguishing between libraries and media programs, several contributors define libraries as entities that "support" instruc- tion and media programs as entities that "improve" it. The publication has some irritating fea- tures. There are misspellings: the Carnegie Commission is frequently rendered "Car- neigie." There are also some rather odd grammatical constructions in the preface Recent Publications I 565 and introduction: How does a "goal" [sub- ject] "target at" [verb] something? The spiral-bound format is functional and prob- ably economical, but not particularly eye- catching. The material, however, is useful and compactly presented.-Cathleen Flana- gan, Graduate School of Library Science, University af Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Thompson, Anthony Hugh. Censorship in Public Libraries in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century. New York: Bowker, 1975. 236p. $15.95. (ISBN 0-85935-0 19-3) A revision of the author's master's thesis, this study purports to be the first thorough analysis of censorship in U.K. public li- braries. It reveals, probably to the surprise of very few, that censorship has been fre- quently imposed on and practiced by those libraries. During the troubled years of World War II, for example, a refusal to purchase potentially troublesome political publications, including the Daily Worker, created a controversy in Southport, as did a ban on the purchase of Huxley's work on saving one's sight, The Art of Seeing. Dur- ing the 1950s the book critic of the West London Observer conducted an editorial campaign against alleged library censorship to win a place on open shelves in West London for Memoirs af Hecate County. In the 1960s the Manchester Libraries Com- mittee decided to purchase Lady Chatter- ley's Lover ("If the father of a 15-year-old girl does not want her to read Lady C., it is his responsibility to stop her . . . borrow- ing it from the library"), whereas the F1eet- wood Library Committee .rejected the book because "it has the morals of a farmyard." As in the U.S., well-publicized contro- versies over library materials in Britain have usually been the product of citizens' complaints (an outraged mother wrote to the Bury Free Press in 1960: "If members of the Town Council's libraries committee are aware of certain types of novels, some of them really disgusting ... "), as well as the public decisions of library committees reluctant to endanger public morals and the support of libraries by local ratepayers. Again, as in the U.S., British librarians have both favored and opposed library cen- sorship. In 1928 Stanley Snaith, then chief assistant in Islington Public Libraries, ar-