Professional Media Reviews, February 1, 2011
The Expert Library: Staffing, Sustaining, and Advancing the Academic Library in the 21st Century. Assn. of College & Research Libs. Feb. 2011. 373p. ed. by Scott Walter & Karen Williams. illus. ISBN 9780838985519. pap. $48. PRO MEDIA Remember the old l...
Professional Media Reviews, March 15, 2011
Baumann, Susana G. ¡Hola, amigos!: A Plan for Latino Outreach. Libraries Unlimited: ABC-CLIO. (Latinos and Libraries). 2010. 409p. bibliog. illus. index. ISBN 9781591584742. pap. $40. PRO MEDIA Baumann (Cuesta MultiCultural Consulting & Training), an...
Professional Media Reviews, April 1, 2011
Conversations with Catalogers in the 21st Century. Libraries Unlimited: ABC-CLIO. (Library Management Collection). 2010. 283p. ed. by Elaine R. Sanchez. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781598847024. pap. $50. PRO MEDIA This is not an introductory book for LIS c...
Professional Media Reviews, April 15, 2011
Harvey, Ross. Digital Curation. Neal-Schuman. (How-To-Do-It Manuals). 2010. 225p. illus. index. ISBN 9781555706944. pap. $75. PRO MEDIA In a world where obsolescence or loss of access to digital content is an ongoing threat, a book on digital curatio...
Professional Media Reviews, November 1, 2010
Fulton, Crystal. Information Pathways: A Problem-Solving Approach to Information Literacy. Scarecrow. 2010. c.154p. illus. index. ISBN 9780810874268. pap. $40. PRO MEDIA Fulton (Sch. of Information & Library Studies, Univ. Coll., Dublin) presents a ...
Professional Media Reviews, May 15, 2011
How To Stay Afloat in the Academic Library Job Pool. ALA. 2011. 152p. ed. by Teresa Y. Neely. index. ISBN 9780838910801. pap. $50. PRO MEDIA For both those new to academic library jobs and librarians who are seasoned professionals, this book provides p...
Professional Media Reviews, May 1, 2011
Lankes, R. David. The Atlas of New Librarianship. MIT. 2011. c.1077p. illus. ISBN 9780262015097. $55. PRO MEDIA Lankes asserts, “The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities,” initiati...
Professional Media Reviews, December 15, 2010
Boomers and Beyond: Reconsidering the Role of Libraries. ALA. 2010. 144p. ed. by Pauline Rothstein & Diantha Dow Schull. index. ISBN 9780838910146. pap. $55. PRO MEDIA Our population is aging. Not only are baby boomers now reaching retirement age, but...
Professional Media Reviews, January 2011
Oliver, Chris. Introducing RDA: A Guide to the Basics. ALA. 2010. c.128p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780838935941. pap. $45. PRO MEDIA While Resource Description and Access (RDA), the new cataloging standard, succeeding Anglo-American Cataloguing R...
Social Sciences Reviews, July 2011
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Adams, Jad. Gandhi: The True Man Behind Modern India. Pegasus. Jul. 2011. c.288p. illus. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781605981710. $26.95. BIOG Historian Adams (visiting research fellow, Sch. of Advanced Study, Univ. of London; Hideous Absi...