College and Research Libraries 270 I College and Research Libraries • May 1980 LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE · SOURCE OF GERMAN. BOOKS AND PERIODICALS? TRY: STERN-VERLAG JANSSEN & CO YOUR RELIABLE GUIDE TO THE GERMAN BOOK WORLD Stern-Verlag Janssen & Co International Booksellers & Subscription Agents POB 7820 · D-4000 Dusseldorf W-Germany We invite you to visit our booth at the SLA and ALA annual conferences Rubin, and "Health Science Librarian," by Agnes Roach stress the direct aid to the community. "Emerging Patterns of Service for Citizens' Groups," by Joan Dorrance, 'The Curriculum Consultant Role of the School Library Media Specialist," by Mar- garet Grazier, and "Video and Cable," by B. K. L. Genova place the library in a facil- itator's position. The contributors as a group have pro- vided the reader with timely and appropri- ate examples drawn from excellent bibliog- raphies. The volume as a whole balances succinct histories of services with predic- tions of their eventual success or failure. Together the selections create a statement about change and adaptation, giving the reader a sense of the universality of the pat- terns of service and the necessity of con- tinual change.-Damaris Ann Schmitt, Meramec Community College Library, St. Louis, Missouri. Allerton Park Institute, 24th, 1978. Supervi- sion of Employees in Libraries. Rolland E. Stevens, Editor. Urbana-Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science, 1979. 113p. $9. LC 79-10860. ISBN 0-87845-051-3. Individuals currently in supervisory posi- tions and those aspiring to become super- visors will find these proceedings stimulat- ing and potentially useful. The intuitive be- liefs of the authors, reinforced by their own supervisory experiences, are the mainstay of this work. The authors also make use of appropriate research results to support key viewpoints. Supervisory issues discussed cover the gamut from the theoretical to the practical. On the whole this is a needed and impor- tant contribution to library management literature. Authors and the titles of their contributions give the scope of the volume: "The Importance of Good Supervision in Libraries" (Hugh C. Atkinson), "Contribu- tions from the Theory of Administration to- ward Understanding the Process of Supervi- sion: Barth's Distinction" (Lars Larson), "The Research Basis of Employee-Centered Supervision" (Richard J. Vorwerk), "An Overview of Supervision in Libraries To- day" (Martha J. Bailey), "Leadership and Employee Motivation" (Donald J. Sager), "The Role of the Supervisor in Training and Developing Staff' (David R. Dowell), "Mak- ing the Transition from Employee to Super- visor" (Panel Presentation), "Interaction Skills and the Modem Supervisor" (Richard Calabrese), "Handling Employee Problems" (Elaine M. Albright), and "Equal Employ- ment Opportunity Principles and Affirma- tive Action Principles in Library Supervi- sion" (Agnes M. Griffen) . While the volume encompasses a variety of supervisory topics, several themes tend to be repeated . Often addressed as insights or guidelines to effective supervision, they include: (1) the importance of evaluation, training, and motivation as essential el~­ ments of the supervisory process; (2) the need to study the situation, defined broadly to include characteristics and predisposi- tions of the employees and the supervisor, the nature of the tasks supervised, and other significant factors in the work situation ; and (3) the importance of making people feel recognized and worthwhile . Another recurring theme stressed by several of the authors concerns the limita- tions of library supervisors as found in the library research literature and from their own observations . David Dowell probably hits the nail on the head as well as anyone in his comments on the failure of library su- pervisors to fulfill their training and other supervisory responsibilities, as follows: " Many see themselves as workers first and supervisors second. They fail to realize that supervising is as much their responsibility as is the work of their unit. They feel guilty if they are not doing as much of the routine work as their subordinates. Therefore, little time and energy are left for uniquely super- visory activities" (p.65). A highlight of the collection is a section candidly summarizing the reactions of five (three in university libraries) recently appointed supervisors to their new responsi- bilities. The transition from employee to su- pervisor is vicariously described along with the inevitable attendant problems they had in adjusting to former peers and even su- pervisors. Their attempts to solve these and other problems are interesting and should be valuable to others in similar situations.- Micbael B . Binder, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, New Jersey. Recent Publications I 271 Tanselle , G . Thomas. Selected Studies in Bibliography. Charlottesville, Va . : Pub- lished for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the Uni- versity Press of Virginia, 1979. 506p. $15. LC 79-12476. ISBN 0-8139-0829-9. These Selected Studies in Bibliography, selected by Tanselle, himself, upon the in- itiative of the Society, consist of eleven arti- cles reproduced by offset from their appear- ance originally in Studies in Bibliography over a sixteen-year period , 1963-79. As such , they represent but a fraction of Tan- selle' s contributions to both the theory and practice of bibliography as well as to textual criticism. Formerly a member of the En- glish faculty at the University of Wisconsin and more recently named as vice-president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, he has become a major figure in American bibliography. His two-volume Guide to the Study of United States Im- prints (Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard Univ. Pr., 1971 ) is characteristic of his thorough- ness and industry. This particular collection of papers , by design I suspect, falls into three divisions. The first three articles (dating from 1969, 1974, and 1977) are devoted to "studies of the theory and tools of bibliography, chiefly descriptive. " The three following (from 1967, 1970, and 1971) are concerned with the "analyses of the problems that occur in dealing with bindings and paper in descrip- tive bibliography. " Five articles (1972-79) examining " textual criticism and editing" round out the work. All reflect admirably Tanselle's "extraordinary thoroughness and copiousness of investigation." The man ' s intake , intelligent structur- ing, and elucidation of all things biblio- graphical is prodigious. His " Descriptive Bibliography and Library Cataloging" indi- cates he knows at least as well as some pro- fessional catalogers (and better than some others) the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules and their applicability to rare book cataloging. Few catalogers, however, aside from those associated with the select num- ber of truly significant rare book libraries, will find themselves able to indulge in the labor-intensive descriptive cataloging proce- dures he advocates. (It should be noted, however , that Tanselle is no ivory tower