Issues in Personnel Management in Academic Libraries (Book Review)

ature is another question.It may be said without undue cynicism that the converse is possibly nearer the truth-there is little doubt that the literature is well dotted with 'gleams in the eye' and hopes that have as yet not come to fruition."C. K. Balmforth, in treating management information, reminds us that "the medieval chained book implies an earlier decision based on the statistics of theft, or conceivably on even more reliable data about the Fall of Man."And R. F. Eatwell of Surrey has a sound and contemporary treatment of what we Americans call bibliographic instruction.The volume reads easily, has a commendable index, is on nonacidic paper, has a brief glossary (the only curiosity being that OCLC is explained as the "Ohio College Library Centre"), and the masculine pronoun is seen to be the accepted editorial style of the Library Association.