College and Research Libraries 268 College & Research Libraries collections, it is generally acknowledged that second level is the standard. The third level is more likely to be used by national cataloging agencies and for special collec- tions. It is also important to note that a de- scription might look the same at more than one level depending on the rules (or lack of rules) that apply to the piece. Maxwell's Handbook for AACR2 is a nice complementary work to AACR2. Its use- fulness for beginners is unquestionable. It is also of value to the more experienced cataloger and to the librarian who needs some hand-holding while working through the code.-Nancy R. John, Univer- sity of Illinois at Chicago. Gleaves, Edwin S. and Tucker, John Mark, comps. Reference Services and Li- brary Education. Lexington, Mass.: Lex- ington Books, 1983. 306p. LC 81-48266. ISBN 0-669-05320-1. As Fanny Cheney has done throughout her long and illustrious career in librarian- ship, so does she now in this fine Fest- schrift that has been prepared in her honor: she brings out the best in people. Eighteen of her colleagues and former stu- dents have written essays for this volume, each dealing in one way or another with one of her two consuming professional interests-reference services or library education-not in combination, but rather, taken separately. None of the con- tributed papers give the impression of be- ing pro forma or of having been dashed off just for the occasion, and clearly none of them have been accepted for publication here simply because they laud the hon- oree. Although as in any such collection, their quality varies, all are insightful and provocative and deserve being read by any librarian interested in one of the two subjects. Some of the papers constituting the first part of the volume deal with reference sources themselves. Among such papers is one by Jessie Carney Smith that identi- fies and evaluates recent reference sources concerning cultural minorities in the United States-blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and native Americans. William Vernon Jackson discusses a major repository of Latin Americana often overlooked by re- May 1983 searchers, the Bibliotheque Nationale. Donald Thompson draws from his own extensive personal experience in discuss- ing the writing of biographical reference sources. Bill Katz, in the inimitable style that we have come to expect from him, writes of the potential pleasures and bene- fits that can be derived from reading refer- ence books. Other contributions to this part of the . volume concern the administration and delivery of reference services. Larry Earl Bone writes about reference service man- agement. Johnnie Givens and James E. Ward write of bibliographical instruction, Robert Burgess discusses computer- assisted reference work, and Eileen Mc- Grath talks of its delivery in liberal arts col- leges. The second section of the volume con- tains six essays by well-known library ed- ucators. A brace of papers, one by Edward Holley and the other by coeditor John Mark Tucker, elucidate helpfully how li- brary education came to and flourished in the South. John Richardson perceptively relates W. W. Charters' early efforts at li- brary school curriculum, which leads to the current schism between those who would emphasize the why of librarianship and those who would stress its how. Thomas Galvin reviews the advent of the case· method into library schools and its likely role in the future. Frank Gibbons takes a comparative look at library educa- tion in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and Martha Boaz writes of leadership in the field. Also included is the paraphernalia usu- ally attendant to Festschriften. Coeditor Edwin Gleaves supplies a delightful essay on Cheney, along with a chronology of her long professional career. Because of her substantial contributions to the pro- fession, however, both would have fit ad- mirably into the subject matter of the vol- ume even if it had not been prepared in her honor. John David Marshall appends a bibliography of Ms. Cheney's prolific writings, andAndrewLytle,longtimeedi- tor of the Sewanee Review, presents a grace- ful and appropriate cameo on a side of her life which is less known among librarians, her pervasive presence over more than a half century in the beau monde of south- ern letters. All in all this is a good book, a fitting trib- ute to a great librarian, and a valuable con- tribution to the literature of the two library fields that benefited most from the atten- tion and ministration of Frances Neel Cheney-reference services and library education.-David Kaser, Indiana Univer- sity. Stueart, Robert. Academic Librarianship: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. New York: Neal-Schuman, 1982. 273p. $24.95. LC 81-18866. ISBN 0-918212- 52-9. How many reviews of Festschriften be- gin with these words: ''As with any collec- tion of articles, the strength of these es- says varies"? It is a cliche at best, and like all cliches it is essentially true. This collec- tion is nowhere identified as a Festschrift for Ralph Ellsworth, but it is dedicated to him and contains a bibliography of works by and about him, as well as a list of the places he has served as a consultant and a narrative bio-bibliography that is more bio- than biblio- and in any case, brief. Librarians have traditionally ''disliked'' Festschriften; the publisher was wise to avoid the designation. They are hard to classify, they do not lend themselves to subject analysis and, most distressing, un- til and unless they are picked up in some indexing tool, the articles in them are ''lost'' to future retrieval unless one has an accurate and fairly complete citation. Laying aside those traditional objec- tions, there is an even more pressing con- cern: why should articles on consulting by Ellsworth Mason (the other Ellsworth), centralized cataloging by Joe Howard and Judith Schmidt, and interlibrary coopera- tion by Joe Hewitt be published in a book rather than in a professional journal where they would get much wider distri- bution and :r:eading? These are but three of the thirteen articles (written by fifteen au- thors) that now share limbo with Fest- schriften in all fields during the past 200 years. Let me make myself perfectly clear! I ap- plaud Mr. Stueart' s efforts in acknowl- edging the Ralph Ellsworth contribution Recent Publications 269 to our profession. My published words elsewhere show my admiration for both the man and myth. I wish, however, the tribute had taken another form. It is nei- ther too late nor too early for librarians to band together forming an eternal alliance. We'll call it ''Librarians against Festschrif- ten" (LAF, or perhaps LAF, for short). And, since organizations cannot survive based on purely negative motivations, ours shall have this positive goal: We shall strive to create a new journal. It will be called Festschrift International; beginning as an annual and moving quickly through the gears to become a weekly. The obvious result will be fifty-two Festschriften per year, surely enough to meet the world's needs. To the delight of librarians it will be indexed in a major indexing service thus eliminating the need for analytics and in- dividual subject cataloging. In the meantime, collections with inter- ests in academic librarianship must buy the present book. With contributions by Clyde Walton, Dale Bentz, and the late Carl Jackson (perhaps his last published writing), as well as other well-recognized academic library leaders, it will be re- quested from time to time by patrons who stumble upon a reference to it.-W. David Laird, University of Arizona Library. Prange, W. Werner and others. Tomor- row's Universities: A Worldwide Look at Educational Change. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1982. 238p. $20. LC 82- 060045. ISBN 0-86531-410-1. Primarily a report from the World Con- ference on Innovative Higher Education held in May 1978, this book is an aid to the understanding of university innovations around the world at the beginning of the 1980s. The conference was convened by Bu-Ali Sina University of Iran, Linkoping Uni- versity of Sweden, and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in cooperation with the Johnson Foundation. The problems arising from the national environments in which institutions of higher education plan their programs are many and varied. Developing countries are seeing an increase in the need for higher education to develop leaders for