College and Research Libraries . 338 I College & Research Libraries • July 1977 be enough resources to build new libraries at all universities at a scale needed to match their growth, the UGC (the body in Britain that allocates funds for universities, including their libraries) established a working party to review the policy for the provision of new buildings and to make rec- ommendations for changes. This is the working party's report. It is nothing less than a complete "re- visionist" view of university librarianship. It questions the vast body of conventional wisdom and received ideas on the natural growth of academic research libraries and puts forth a new, highly controversial con- cept of the "self-renewing library" in which new acquisitions are offset to a consider- able extent by withdrawals. It is a concept that is a natural development in the British library scene and a logical component in an evolving national library system dominated by the same revisionist thinking that pro- duced first the NLL and then the central- ized British library incorporating the BLLD. The report is brief, clear, and well written and should be required reading for all U.S. academic research librarians and network planners. Anthony J. Loveday, the Secretary of the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries ( SCONUL, the British counterpart of ARL), has written a long and highly critical appraisal of the report (Journal of Li- brarianship 9:17-28 [January 1977]) which makes essential supplementary reading for those who want both sides of the argu- ment.-Richard De Gennaro, ·University of Penn sylvania. Evans, G. Edward. Management Tech- niques for Librarians. Library and Infor- mation Science. New York: Academic Press, 1976. 276p. $14.50. LC 75-13089. ISBN 0-12-243850-7. This book is intended as a text for gradu- ate students in library management courses. The author, who teaches at UCLA, states he found no satisfactory text, and that is in- deed a reflection of the state of the art. He makes a distinction between books on li- brary administration dealing with the orga- nization of services for a particular type of library (of which there are a number avail- able) and one which would present basic organizational and managerial techniques common to all libraries and other enter- prises. Since libraries have depended quite heavily on the "sink or swim" approach in terms of managerial skills, this book does fill a need, but to a limited extent. The au- thor himself doubts that library manage- ment can be taught in the sense of catalog- ing or acquisitions. At the least, some mis- takes and pitfalls may be avoided. Management Techniques for Librarians pulls together standard material drawn from the literature of administrative science and organizes it into fourteen chapters on: library management; history of manage- ment; styles of management and organiza- tional thought; creativity and the library; decision making; planning; delegation; delegation of authority; communications; motivation; personnel; finance; work analy- sis; and management, librarians, and the future. Each chapter has a bibliography of one to two pages including numerous arti- cles from the literature of librarianship as well as old standbys from the field of ad- ministration. There is an index. Each of the chapters summarizes the various schools of thought with much list- ing of steps and attributes, virtues and faults. Illustrative library examples are pro- vided. Too often, however, the library ap- plications are perfunctory; or there is inadequate editorial transference into the world of libraries, and the orientation re- mains industrial or commercial. In general, the author has done a decent job of organizing and summarizing the ma- terial which is traditionally used, but there's not anything new here. For example, in the chapter on motivation he runs through Mas- low's hierarchy of needs, McGregor's Theo- ry X and Theory Y, Argyris' continuum, the Herzberg model, and several others. There are stages in management meth- ods, and the in-words change frequently. A few recent ones that he missed: manage- ment by objectives, zero-base budgeting, and MRAP. Some matters of current interest are dealt with summarily. Participative man- agement, although listed in the index, never gets mentioned in the four pages of text dealing with committees, a different empha- sis entirely. Unions barely get a half-page. Computerization gets short shrift, though it is acknowledged that it does have a sig- nificant role to play in work analysis and the work activity in a library. An admirable feature throughout the book is the nonsexist terminology which the author has obviously been careful to use, with rare lapses to "he" or "his." A constant underlying message is that s·uccessful administrators come in many styles, and there are no hard and fast rules. Why then do we need a textbook? Only because it is obligatory to have an educa- tional background in administrative con- cepts and techniques (or, administrative myths and proverbs), if only to discard them as experience and personal judgment dictate.-A. A. Mitchell, Associate Librari- an, State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh. The Business of Publishing: A PW Anthol- ogy. With an Introduction by Arnold W. Ehrlich. New York: Bowker, 1976. 303p. $11.95. LC 76-42195. ISBN 0-8352- 0893-1. Few trade journals can match Publishers Weekly's history of dedicated service to the book industry. Since 1871 its editorial pages have exerted a very positive influ- ence on the conduct of book publishing and bookselling. The contributions to American culture of PW's past editors Leypoldt, Bowker, and Frederic Melcher are com- parable to those made by the industry's most distinguished publishing houses. Reviewing the past five years of publica- tion, Arnold W. Ehrlich, PWs' present editor-in-chief, has selected forty-five arti- cles which emphasize, as one might gather from the title, the business side of publish- ing. The primary audience for this book is likely to be people who have recently en- tered the book trade. As a book of read- ings, the anthology complements some recent analyses of book publishing econom- ics: John P. Dessauer's Book Publishing, What It Is, What It Does (Bowker, 197 4); Clive Bingley's The Business of Book Pub- lishing (Pergamon, 1972); and Dinoo J. Vanier's Market Structure and the Business of Book Publishing (Pitman, 1973). While not as comprehensive as Grannis' Recent Publications I 339 standard survey, What Happens in Book Publishing (Columbia, 2d ed., 1967), the major functions-editorial, production, and distribution-and many of the major cate- gories of book publishing are represented. While all the contributions reveal the oper- ational side of the publishing business, most are quite readable; some are entertaining. And some manage to reveal the idealism and commitment which annually encourage thousands of freshly-washed faces to seek employment in the industry. Outstanding among the regular contributions to PW have been John Dessauer's and Paul Doeb- ler's thoughtful and provocative essays. Ehrlich has chosen their best pieces for in- clusion. The Benjamin, Brockway, and Prescott rebuttals to Dessauer's "Too Many Books?" argument are also represented. Thomas W eyr' s comprehensive series on book clubs is here, as well as three articles from Roger H. Smith's 1975 series on mass market paperback distribution. (Smith later expanded this series into Paperback Parnas- sus [Westview Press, 1976].) Because this is a collection of reprints rather than a commissioned anthology, some important areas of the book industry receive only slight reference, if any at all: regional and foreign publishing, trade pa- perbacks, book wholesalers and retailers, and new integrated book manufacturing systems. Much less excusable is the collection's page design and typography. A cut-and- paste collection, the articles have merely been photocopied and printed from their original journal pages. This results in dif- fering type styles and page formats as well as uncorrected typos. As with most anthol- ogies of this sort, the index is also skimpy. Despite these shortcomings, plus a ques- tionable price tag for a collection of pre- viously published pieces, the anthology be- longs in any library attempting to stay abreast of contemporary American book publishing methods. College libraries will also want to include it among their "career" book selections.-Thomas L. Bonn, Associ- ate Librarian, Memorial Library, State Uni- versity of New York, College at CQrtland. Pages: The World of Books, Writers, and Writing. 1- Matthew J. Bruccoli, Editorial Director. C. E. Frazer Clark,