College and Research Libraries the Tennessee Valley Authority and was supported by the state library agencies and state library associations of the nine-state region-Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Ken- tucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. It up- dates a similar survey conducted in 1946-47 under the aegis of the Tennessee Valley Library Council. Since its primary intention, as stated in the preface, was "to provide a data base for regional planning for library develop- ment and for cooperative action," one might expect somewhat more emphasis on the implications for cooperation in the course of the presentation of data gathered. Several references are made, for example, to limitations which placed time constraints on the scope of the study, among them the decision not to collect data on academic consortia. As it stands, however, the volume offers valuable information on almost every kind of library resource in the area, and we are told that a supplementary volume of statis- tical data has also been issued (see M. E. Anders, The Southeastern States Coopera- tive Libra-ry Survey, 1972-7 4: Tables [At- lanta: Industrial Development Division, Engineering Experiment Station, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1975]). The report is simply organized and easy to approach. In successive chapters, the author describes the region, the major agen- cies responsible for leadership, the types of institutions providing library services, and general characteristics of library personnel with a cursory look at library users. The services offered by the various types of agencies and libraries are analyzed accord- ing to the geographical area served, finan- cial support received, materials held, personnel employed, personnel practices observed, types of people served, and phys- ical quarters and equipment maintained. Except for state library agencies and su- preme court libraries, findings are not bro- ken down by individual institution. Specific recommendations for achieving greater ef- fectiveness are offered for each type. A final interpretive chapter gives an over- view of the survey, assesses current condi- tions in terms of the goals set in the 1946- 47 study, and outlines eight overall recom- mendations for regional action. Addressed Recent Publications I 261 to the sponsoring association, these specify the hiring of a full-time SELA director with responsibility for exercising leadership in regional plans involving all . types of li- braries, agencies, and organizations con- cerned with library services. The ensuing programs would link library resources more closely with user needs, develop new net- works compatible with the national pro- gram, encourage more financial support for public library service, and strengthen re- search collections cooperatiyely. Dr. Anders also suggests the strengthening of standards for school library I media centers and the provision of a regionwide continuing educa- tion program. In deciding the future direction of their regional efforts, Southeastern leaders should perhaps give special attention, not simply to the survey director's final recommenda- tions for SELA, but more basically to her recommendations for state library agencies and to other observations she makes along the way. Dr. Anders mentions variously the existence of legislation in eight of the nine states authorizing interstate compacts, the responsibility of state library agencies to create and support programs uniting the types of libraries, and the hazards of ex- pecting library associations to sustain con- tinuity in long-range planning and develop- ment. Put together and carried to their logical conclusion, these points might suggest the solution which is currently being tried in New England. In the early 1970s the New England Library Association, seeking a fo- cus for regionwide cooperative efforts, initi- ated the creation of a separate legal entity, representative of all types of libraries but directed by the state agencies under the Interstate Library Compact. SELA may wish to consider the New England experi- ence as it seeks ways to implement the sur- vey recommendations for regional coopera- tive action in the Southeast.-Ma-ry A. McKenzie, Executive Directo-r, New Eng- land Library Board, Hartford, Connecticut. Sullivan, Peggy. Carl H. Milam and the American Library Association. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1976. 390p. $17.50. LC 76-3686. ISBN 0-8242-0592-8. Milam, Carl H. Carl H. Milam and the United Nations Library. Edited and with , 268 I College & Research Libraries • May 1977 an introduction by Doris Cruger Dale. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1976. 132p. $6.00. LC 76-14866. ISBN 0-8108-0941- 9. From 1920 to 1948, the name of Carl Hastings Milam was synonymous with the American Library Association and, to some extent, with American librarianship itself. As spokesman, · administrator, consultant, and friend, he shaped the course of libraries in the United States and their relationship to librarianship around the world. Those who remember this hearty, gregarious, and effective man are startled to discover that many now do not even recognize his name. Fortunately-for his career explains much about our present situation-scholars are beginning to study this key figure of twen- tieth-century American librarianship. Born in Kansas in 1884, Milam began his work in libraries as a student assistant at the University of Oklahoma under the di- rection of Milton J. Ferguson, later the re- spected public librarian of Brooklyn. The experience prompted Milam to go on to the Albany library school after completing his college studies. Beginning work as cataloger at Purdue University, he became secretary and library organizer for the Indiana Public Library Commission in 1909, moving in 1913 to become director of the Birmingham, Ala- bama, Public Library. When the Library War Service was established in 1917, Milam became a principal assistant to Her- bert Putnam, the Librarian of Congress, who directed the work of providing li- braries for the servicemen in France and in camps in the United States. Although nominally on leave from Birmingham, Milam soon turned most of his attention to the national enterprise. When American librarians, inspired by their success in the war effort, determined to seek support for a widened and deep- ened postwar library service, Milam soon became a leading figure in the so-called Enlarged Program. For a time he jointly administered the closing days of the Li- brary War Service and the beginnings of the fund drive for the postwar effort. Then, in 1920, he was appointed executive secre- tary of ALA, bringing together his previous responsibilities with new duties. Although the grandiose plans for the Enlarged Pro- gram were never realized, Milam was at the center of the efforts during the 1920s to carry out reform and expansion. Supported primarily by the Carnegie Corporation, which had ceased to subsidize buildings in favor of improvement of li- brary programs, American librarianship un- dertook new activities, particularly in adult education, library extension, and library ed- ucation. During the depression years of the 1930s, Milam led the association in seeking to protect library services and librarians' positions from budget cuts. Programs sup- ported by the New Deal were harnessed for the benefit of libraries, and the new fashion for planning was reflected in the activities of ALA under Milam's leadership. Then, with the onset of World War II, ALA was again involved both with the encourage- ment of wartime library services and with postwar planning. During all of these twenty-eight years of change, adjustment, and growth, Milam, as Sullivan says, "showed a remarkable capacity to grow" (p.95). Concurrently with all of his activities at home, Milam was often a leading library spokesman for the United States in other countries. It was natural that he was one of the group selected to survey the library needs of the newly organized United Na- tions and that he was then asked to under- take the responsibility of setting the new library on its feet. In 1948, aged sixty- three, he anticipated his impending retire- ment by taking on this new challenge for the last two years of his career. During those same years, he was nomi- nated as ALA's president by an influential inner circle of the association whose mem- bers thought he had earned the honor. To Milam's embarrassment, a group of mem- bers chose that occasion to overturn the tradition of a single nominee for the office, nominating by petition a rival candidate who was elected. Although the outcome seems to have been primarily a result of the movement toward democracy rather than personal opposition to Milam, it was an unfortunate episode in his association career. All the evidence suggests that he took the defeat in good grace and without bitterness. For his last thirteen years he retired to his home outside Chicago, enduring the sadness of his wife's difficult final illness SaveTime,Soace and Money While Gaining 4ccess and Control The Library of Congress/National Union Catalogs are now more conve- nient, more productive and more economical in microfiche editions from Information Handling Services (IHS@)). Immediately available in microfiche are the Library of Congress Catalogs from 1898 to 1952 and National Union Catalogs from 1953 to 1974. 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Carried out as a disser- tation at the University of Chicago, the work brings Milam to life as a person and summarizes his career well. In the process, Sullivan tells us a great deal about the progress of both the association and the profession. It is a useful and informative book. It has an unfortunate flaw that makes it difficult to read as a single sequence. Faced with the multiplicity and complexity of Milam's life and career, Sullivan chose to divide her work into topics rather than to adhere strictly to chronology. She begins with two chapters that bring first the association's history and then Milam's life up to 1920. A third chapter seeks to summarize the work of the associa- tion broadly during Milam's tenure. The succeeding chapters deal with his relations with outside organizations such as founda- tions and the federal government, his inter- national involvements, his position and ac- tivities as spokesman of the association and of the profession, his personality at work and in his private life, and his final years. The consequence is a fragmentation that prevents the reader from following the story from beginning to end. Sullivan's choice is, of course, a response to the classic dilemma of the historian seek- ing to reconcile chronology with integrated treatment of subject matter; to an extent, one or the other inevitably suffers. In this Recent Publications I 271 instance, however, the fragmentation is more than simply a matter of choice and taste. Particular matters, being treated in a number of places piecemeal, are never completely explained. Just as one example, the nature of the Enlarged Program is never detailed with the fullness that this important and revealing dream warrants, though it is mentioned on numerous occa- sions. In another instance of unfortunately meager coverage, Sullivan leaves the reader dependent for detailed knowledge of Mi- lam's work at the United Nations upon Doris Cruger Dale's The United Nations Library; Its Origins and Development (ALA, 1970). Surely the reader of Milam's major biography is entitled to a comprehen- sive summary of the nature of the problems and Milam's responses to them. Despite its flaws, however, Sullivan's Milam is an in- teresting and well-done study that fills an important void. It can be heartily recom- mended as one of a growing group of stud- ies that will enlighten us about the crucial half-century or so that is immediately be- hind us. As a by-product of her work on the UN librmy, Dale has edited Milam's diary of his United Nations years together with an introduction and six appendixes related to the library or Milam's work with it. The study is competently done. Library school libraries and comprehensive research li- braries will doubtless wish to have the book in their collections, though it is difficult to think of many other people who would be likely to need it at hand.-W. L. William- son, Professor, Library School, University of Wisconsin-Madison.