College and Research Libraries 194 College & Research Libraries Jones provides the reader with an excel- lent synthesis of significant and timely concepts, and translates this analysis into an important agenda for professional and organizational action and research.- James G. Neal, Pattee Library, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Management Strategies for Libraries: A Basic Reader. Ed. by Beverly P. Lynch. · New York: Neal-Schuman, 1985. 682p. $35. LC 85-5668. ISBN 0-918212-86-3. Compilations of articles centering on or- ganizational or behavioral themes are commonplace in the field of management, and books of readings reprinting selec- tions viewed as ''classic'' or particularly appropriate to the study of specific areas of business or public administration are required texts in many programs. Readers in librarianship are found less frequently-perhaps because instructors in our library schools expect fledgling in- formation specialists to do their own gath- ering of relevant material. Readers in li- brary management are fewer still. Interestingly, however, three such vol- umes have been published within the past four years: McClure and Samuels' Strate- gies for Library Administration, Person's Management Process, and now Lynch's Management Strategies for Libraries . Each is intended to set library management within a larger context of research and writing and each draws upon the broad lit- erature of the social sciences and of librari- anship. The emphasis is upon concepts and theory as they relate to libraries. The works by McClure and Samuels and by Person are organized to bring together relevant articles and excerpts from books under a number of topical management headings. Lynch takes a slightly different structural approach. Rather than dividing the readings according to traditional ad- ministrative functions or major manage- ment tasks, she gathers them within three sections: ' 'Theoretical Perspectives,'' "The Management Process," and "The Work of Management." Her intent is to provide first ''the foundations for library organization and management'' and then to proceed into the management of li- braries, the manger's job, and the more March 1986 specific management functions. Her selec- tions nicely fit these broad categories and the approach works well. Writings from administration and management fields and from sociology and psychology pre- dominate in the first two parts while the majority in the final section derive from the library field. Of the thirty-eight pieces included, eighteen are taken from the lit- erature of librarianship. Each of the sections is prefaced with an overview in which the various articles are related to the section theme and to each · other. An introduction to the volume fo- cuses on a review of basic theories that Lynch groups into structural, human rela- tions, and political approaches. She sug- gests that understanding management theory and attempting to view a problem ''from more than one theoretical perspec- tive" can provide useful insights to assist managers in their work. With the wealth of management writ- ings available the task of choosing articles for inclusion would seem to be a challeng- ing one. In particular, decisions to exclude materials surely are difficult. Given the numbers involved, I suppose I should not have been surprised to discover little du- plication between Management Strategies for Libraries and earlier readers, but I had expected to find a fair degree of overlap. I was certain that drawing from the classics of management and organization theory and from the best in the library field, the editors would have included in their com- pilations many of the same authors, if not identical works. However, a comparison of the Lynch, Person, and McClure and Samuels volumes, and of Wasserman and Bundy's 1968 Reader in Library Administra- tion as well, revealed that of a total of 134 selections, only four were found more than once (in Lynch and in McClure and Samuels); two of these were from the management literature, two from librari- anship. Only eight authors were included in more than one of the four books and none in more than two. But then a perusal of general management readers suggests this is not unusual. Editing a book of read- ings is a highly selective exercise obvi- ously influenced by one's discipline, training, position, and perspective. In her Introducing a unique collection of never-before-published historical records. UNPUBLISHED US. SENATE COM I RINGS Despite their value, transcripts of many U.S. congressional hearings have never been printed and made available to the public. Until now. 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Write or call for free information For more information on this important new collection call CIS toll-free to request a free brochure: ~8-8380 Or fill in and mail the coupon below. -----------------------------D Please rush me more information on the CIS Index to Unpublished U.S . Senate Com- mittee Hearings and companion microfiche collection. Name Dept. Orga nization Address City / State I Zip MAIL TO: IllS Congressional Information Service, Inc. 4520 East-West Hwy., Suite 800-C Bethesda, MD 20814-3389 Tel. 301-654-1550 196 College & Research Libraries preface Lynch acknowledges that the pro- cess was difficult and indicates her choices ''reflect . . . theoretical and research inter- ests which are centered in the study of the sociology of complex organizations.'' Lynch's choices are good ones . We find here Peter Blau, R. M. Cyert and James March, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harold Koontz, Henry Mintzberg, Herbert Si- mon, Victor Vroom, and Max Weber among others from the larger world of or- ganizational and behavioral theory. In- cluded are Frederick Herzberg's "One More Time: How Do You Motivate Em- ployees?" and "General Systems The- ory" by Fremont Kast and James Ro- senzweig. Donald Coney I Richard Dougherty and Fred Heinritz, Richard De Gennaro, George D'Elia, Robert Downs and Arthur McAnally, Thomas Galvin, Maurice Marchant, and Thomas Shaughnessy are some of the librarians March 1986 whose works are reprinted. Significant writings from the library literature include ''The Functions of Library Management'' by Paul Howard and ''From Economic to Political Analysis of Library Decision Mak- ing" by Jeffrey Raffel. Lynch herself is represented by two pieces. An excerpt from Frederick Taylor's Principles of Scien- tific Management (1911), first of the selec- tions, is among the oldest included, while Patricia Schuman's 1984 article, ''Women, Power, and Libraries," is the most recent. Almost three-quarters of the articles first appeared within the past fifteen years. Lynch has drawn together a number of important writings useful to understand- ing management theories and their appli- cations to libraries. Her work is a worthy addition to the limited number of library management readers and texts.-]ordan M. Scepanski, University Library, California State University, Long Beach. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Afro-American Poets Since 1955. Ed. by Trudier Harris and Thadious M. Davis. Dictionary of Literary Biography, V.41. Detroit: Gale, 1985. 419p . $88 cloth. LC 85-16093. ISBN 0-8103-1719-2. Aghevli, Bijan B. and Jorge Marquez-Ruarte. A Case of Successful Adjustment: Korea's Experi- ence During 1980-84. Occasional Papers, no.39. 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