College and Research Libraries 440 I College & Research Libraries • September 1977 periodicals, microforms, and computer tapes. However, it consists instead of four essays, each on a different nonbook materi- al: printed ephemera, manuscript archives, and audiovisuals. The fourth, entitled "Non-Print Items," turns out to be con- cerned with the decorative aspects of librar- ies which are informative, such as murals, busts of writers, spheres, and globes! This book is an outgrowth of a thesis submitted to the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, by the author who is di- rector of the School of Librarianship at Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology, Aberdeen. Orr stresses that this compilation of his thoughts, lectures, and writings is a "contribution," implying informal prelim- inary studies. The usefulness of this book in American library schools would be main- ly as supplementary reading for general courses such as those dealing with the li- brary in society or the library's role in com- munications.-Budd L. Gambee, School of Library Science, University of North Caro- lina, Chapel Hill. Murphy, l\1arcy, and Johns, Claude J., Jr. Handbook of Library Regulations. Books in Library and Information Science, v.20. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1977. 162p. $19.75. LC 76-19994. ISBN 0-8247- 6498-6. Without rules and regulations librarians would be as shaky as Tevye's fiddler on the roof, yet these are things of necessity. Ne- cessity also might send one in search of a concise guide to general library rules and regulations, a handbook something akin to Asa Knowles' Handbook of College and University Administration. If the search leads to Murphy and Johns' Handbook of Library Regulations, there will be a degree of disappointment. This book asserts to be an updated and edited version of the authors' article on li- brary regulations in the new Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Except for a comparison section, a two-page appen- dix on. library laws and legislation, and the deletion of the school libraries section, the book is basically a repeat of the original ar- ticle. The new material does not add signifi- cantly to the information contained in the original article because the comparison sec- tion (Chapter two) merely makes several trivial observations (e.g., "There can be little doubt, after reviewing these data, that re- search and probably most academic librar- ies provide many more hours of access each week than does any other sector") , and the appendix on library laws and legislation is much too brief to be useful. As to the de- leted section on school libraries, it should have been deleted because it represented practices of only nineteen school libraries, scarcely a useful sample. Both the book and the encyclopedia ar- ticle are based on a questionnaire that the authors sent to 429 public, research, state, school, and special libraries in the United . States and Canada. From the 349 responses to the questionnaire, the authors compiled data on library regulations as they relate to users, circulation, resources, interlibrary loan, reprography, and administration. The results are arranged by chapters according to the type of library with the statistical information being preceded, by way of in- troduction, with a definition of the type of library, its objectives, history, users, and trends. This elementary introductory ma- terial js specious, at best, and out of place in a book directed to the professional li- brarian. The authors state in their introduction that they believe it would be helpful to have more information available about li- brary regulations. This reviewer agrees, but he could not find it is this book because it really doesn't provide much useful informa- tion. For example, on page 1 the authors ask the following question, "Do most librar- ies have regulations which typically limit the acquisition of certain subjects?" At- tempt to answer this question as it relates to public libraries, and what does one find in the book under review? Of the more than 12,000 public libraries in the United States the authors' data reveal that 102 public libraries do not limit acquisitions, 16 do, and 11 of these exclude law, medicine, and professional literature. The usefulness of this type of information is highly question- able and so would be the purchase of this book by any librarian with access to the original encyclopedia article.-B. Donald Grose, Director of Library Servi-ces, In- diana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne. 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