Book reviews

The Effective Editor's Handbook, By Barbara Horn, Leatherhead: Pira International 1997, 176 pp £20.00, ISBN: 1 85802 186 3     

Motion Pictures (Our 19th Annual Review)

THE GLOBAL MEDIA: THE NEW MISSIONARIES OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM by Edward S. Herman and Robert W. McChesney (London and Herndon, VA: Cassell, 1997—$19.95, paper, ISBN 0–304–33434–0, 262 pp., notes, index)

BROADCASTING LAW AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS by Rachael Craufurd Smith (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1997—£45.00, ISBN 0–19–826221–3,274 pp., notes, appendices, bibliography, index)

THE SOCIAL SHAPING OF INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAYS: EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ROADS TO THE INFORMATION SOCIETY edited by Herbert Kubicek, William H. Dutton, and Robin Williams (New York: St. Martin's Press/Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1997—$49.95, ISBN 0–312–16569–2 (St. Martin's); 3–593–35739–9 (Campus Verlag), 372 pp., notes, references, tables, charts, abbreviations, index)

ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE by David Crystal (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997—$19.95, ISBN 0–521–59247‐X, 150 pp., maps, charts, bibliography, index)     

Book Reviews

Current legal issues in publishing A. Bruce Strauch (Editor), Hayworth Press Inc. July 1996, 144pp, $29.95 (outside USA/Canada/Mexico $36.00), ISBN: 1-56024-804-1 Publishing and Book Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: an annotated bibliography by Hans M. Zell & Cécile Lomer, London Hans Zell Publishers 1996, 409pp £60, ISBN 1-873836-46-5 The Scholar's Courtesy by Blaise Cronin. London: Taylor Graham, 1995, 124pp, £25 Society of Freelance Editors and Proofreaders, Directory of Members' Services 1997, Published by SFEP, Mermaid House, 1 Mermaid Court, London SE1 1HR, 198pp, £10, including p+p, ISSN 0960-5533     

Book Reviews

Indexing from A to Z Second edition by Hans H. Wellisch, New York and Dublin: H.W. Wilson, 1996, 569 pp, $45, ISBN 0 8242 0882 X Winning the Publications Game by Tim Albert, Oxford and New York: Radcliffe Medical Press, 1997 100pp £15, ISBN 1-85775 183 3     

Book reviews

The Peer-Reviewed Journal: A Comprehensive Guide through the Editorial Process by Gary Michael Smith, Chatgris Press New Orleans, USA, 80 pp & 63 pp of Figs., $35.00, ISBN 0-9658380-0-5 The Book in the United States Today edited by Richard Abel and Gordon Graham, Transaction Publishers, 1997., ix, 280 pages., Index., ISBN: 1-56000-972-1 (pbk), $21.95 / £14.95.     

Book Reviews

Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects Edited by Neil Jacobs Chandos Publishing, 2006. 250 pp. ISBN 1‐84334‐203‐0, £39.95, pbk ISBN 1‐84334‐204‐9, £57.00, hbk Selling Rights, 5th edn Lynette Owen Routledge, 2006. 384 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐415‐36280‐1, £75.00 hbk ISBN 978‐0‐415‐38652‐4, £29.95 pbk Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain by Keith Aoki, James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins Duke Law School Center for the Study of the Public Domain, 2006. 76 pp. ISBN 0‐974‐15531‐4, $5.95, pbk. Freely available online at http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd Digital Preservation Marilyn Deegan Simon Tanner Facet Publishing, 2006, Digital Futures Series. 288 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐85604‐485‐1, £39.95, hbk.     

British Communications

THE MASS MEDIA AND POWER IN MODERN BRITAIN by John Eldridge, Jenny Kitzinger and Kevin Williams (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press “Oxford Modern Britain”; series, 1997—£8.99, paper, ISBN 0–19–878171–7, 199 pp., photos, bibliography, index)

A JOURNALIST'S GUIDE TO SOURCES by David Spark (Jordan Hill, England/Newton, MA: Focal Press “Journalism Media Manual”; series, 1997—$28.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–51470‐X, 398 pp., appendices, index)

CREATING LOCAL TELEVISION: LOCAL AND COMMUNITY TELEVISION UNDER THE RESTRICTED SERVICES LICENSE by Dave Rushton (Luton, England: University of Luton Press/John Libbey Media, 1997—about $16.00, paper, ISBN1–89940–501–1, 96 pp. Diagrams, appendix)

THE PRESS AS PUBLIC EDUCATOR by Colin Lacey and David Longman (Luton, England: University of Luton Press/John Libbey Media, 1997—about $28, paper, ISBN 1–86020–536–4, 236 pp., tables, charts, bibliography, index)

MEDIA, CULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT by Alison Anderson (London: UCL Press/New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997—$50/17.95, ISBN 0–8135–2394‐X hard, 0–8135–2395–8 paper, 236 pp., photos, diagram, references, index)     

Book Reviews

Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice, 3rd edn, by F. W. Lancaster Facet Publishing 2003, 464 pp., ISBN 1‐85604‐482‐3, £39.95 Science Editors' Handbook European Association of Science Editors 2003, ISBN 0‐905988‐13‐2, £18 Digital Preservation: The Record of Science, edited by Barry Mahon and Elliot Siegel IOS Press, 2002, 143 pp., ISBN 1‐58603‐317‐4, paperback £65.00     

Reviews

Comics: Ideology, Power and the Critics. By Martin Barker. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1989. 320 pp. £40 hb, £10.95 pb

David Astor and the Observer. By Richard Cockett. London: Andre Deutsch. 1991. 315 pp. £17.99.

Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge. Historical Essays. By W. F. Bynum, S. Lock and R. Porter. London: Routledge. 1992. 272 pp.

The Magazine in America, 1741–1990. By John Tebbel and Mary Ellen Zuckerman. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 1991. 433 pp. $49.00 (Cdn)

Killing the Messenger: 100 Years of Media Criticism. Edited by Tom Goldstein. New York and Oxford: Columbia University Press. 1991. 272 pp. $17.50 (paperback)

Preserving the Press: How Daily Newspapers Mobilized to Keep Their Readers. By Leo Bogart. New York and Oxford: Columbia University Press. 1991. 327 pp. $46.00 (cloth)

Dictionnaire des journaux 1600–1789, Edited by Jean Sgard. Paris: Universitas, and Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2 vols., 1209 pp. 1991.

Politics and Reviewers: The Edinburgh and the Quarterly in the Early Victorian Age. By Joanne Shattock. Leicester: Leicester University Press. 1989. 220 pp.

Crowds and History: Mass Phenomena in English Towns 1790–1835. By M. Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1988. 373 pp. £25.

The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion. By J. R. Zaller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1992. 367 pp.

Le nuove di Francia, L'Immagine delta rivoluzione francese nella stampa periodica italiana (1789–1795). By Marco Cuaz. Turin: Albert Meynier. 1990. Lira 20,000.     

Book Reviews

Digital Copyright by Paul Pedley Facet Publishing, 2005, 134 pp. Electronic book. Available for single user (ISBN 1‐85604‐573‐0; £34.95 plus VAT) or single‐site licence for a single geographical location (ISBN 1‐85604‐559‐5; £175.00 plus VAT). The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship by John Willinsky MIT Press 2005, ISBN 0 262 23242 1, £22.95 hardback, 290pp     

Book Reviews

Zuckerman: Scientist Extraordinary by Bernard Donovan BioScientifica, Bristol, 2005, 555pp. ISBN 1‐901978249 £24.95 Negotiating licences for digital resources by Fiona Durrant Facet Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1 85604 586 2 Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval By David Haynes Facet Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1 85604 4890     

Book Reviews

Developing Open Access Journals: A Practical Guide David Solomon. Chandos Publishing, 2008. 208 pp. ISBN 978‐1843343400, £57.00, hbk. ISBN 978‐1843343394, £39.95, pbk.     

7. ELECTRONIC MEDIA

INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Ronald A. Cass and John Haring (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press “AEI Studies in Telecommunications Deregulation,”; 1998—price not given, ISBN 0–8447–4071–3, 291 pp., notes, references, index)

THE ECONOMICS OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE by Soon‐Yong Choi, Dale O. Stahl, and Andrew B. Whinston (Indianapolis, IN: Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1997—$49.99, ISBN 1–57870–014–0, 626 pp., tables, charts, graphs, notes, suggested readings and Internet resources, index)

THE FUTURE OF THE ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE edited by Derek Leebaert (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998—$35.00, ISBN 0–262‐ 12209‐X, 383 pp., notes, index)

ELECTRONIC MARKETING AND THE CONSUMER edited by Robert A. Peterson (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997—$58.00/27.95, ISBN 0–7619–1069–7 hard, 0–7619–1070–0 paper, 193 pp., tables and figures, references, index)     

Book Reviews

Information Users and Usability in the Digital Age Chowdhury and Chowdhury Facet, 2011, 304pp. ISBN: 978‐1‐85604‐597‐1, £44.95 (pbk) Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval Ruthven and Kelly Facet, 2011, 320pp. ISBN: 978‐1856047074, £44.95 (pbk)     

B. Telephone

DEMOCRATIZING COMMUNICATION? COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON INFORMATION AND POWER edited by Mashoed Bailie and Dwayne Winseck (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press “The Hampton Communication Series,”; 1997—$85.00/32.50, ISBN 1–57273–064–1 hard, 1–57273‐O65‐X paper, 450 pp., photos, tables, charts, notes, references, index)

INTERNATIONAL MEDAI RESEARCH: A CRITICAL SURVEY edited by John Corner, Philip Schlesinger, and Roger Silverstone (London/New York: Routledge, 1997—$100.00/24.00, ISBN 0–415–09035–0 hard 0–415–18496–7 paper, 238 pp., notes, index)

AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY OF BRITISH BROADCASTING by Andrew Crisell (London and New York: Routledge, 1997—£12.99 [paper], ISBN 0–415–12802–1 hard, 0–415–12803‐X paper, 280 pp., bibliography, index, chapter recommended readings)

THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY RESEARCH SERIES (CRC Press, 2000 Corporate Blvd. NW, Boca Raton, FL 33431) offers three volumes on important Asian countries. Specifically:

THE KOREAN ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY by Michael Pecht, et al. (1997—$39.95, paper, ISBN 0–8493–3172–2, 126 pp., tables, charts, references, index).

THE SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES by Donald Beane et al. (1997—$39.95, paper, ISBN 0–8493–3171–4, 103 pp., tables, charts, references, index).

THE TAIWAN ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY by Chung‐Shing Lee and Michael Pecht (1997—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–8493–3170–6, 157 pp., tables, charts, references).

EUROPEAN MEDIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW (Media Group, Business Research &; Development Centre, Turku School of Economics, Turku, Finland [fax: 011–358–2‐3383–515 or e‐mail: mmr@tukkk.fi ]‐$195.00 per year/5 issues, ISSN not given, first issue January 1998)

CONTEMPORARY TELEVISION: EASTERN PERSPECTIVES edited by David French and Michael Richards (New Delhi/Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage “Communication and Human Values,”; 1996—$52.00/24–95, ISBN 0–8039–9282–3 hard, 0–8039–9283–1 paper, 371 pp., references, tables and figures, index)

TEACHING THE MEDIA: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES edited by Andrew Hart (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum “LEA's Communication Series,”; 1998—prices not given, ISBN 0–8058–2476–6 hard, 0–8058–2477–4 paper, 208 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index)

GETTING TO WAR: PREDICTING INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT WITH MASS MEDIA INDICATORS by W. Ben Hunt (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997—$49.50, ISBN 0–472–10751–8, 304 pp., tables, charts, appendices, notes, bibliography, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: RESTRUCTURING WORK AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS WORLDWIDE edited by Harry C. Katz (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press/Cornell University Press “Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Report, No. 32,”; 1997— $49.95/19.95, ISBN 0–8014–3286–3 hard, 0–8014–8361–1 paper, 401 pp., tables, notes, references, index)

SECRET STATE SILENT PRESS: NEW MILITARISM, THE GULF AND THE MODERN IMAGE OF WARFARE by Richard Keeble (Luton: University of Luton Press, 1997—£14.95, paper, ISBN 1–860–20–539, 222 pp., bibliography, index)

EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION: WHAT DO PEOPLE WANT? edited by Manfred Meyer (Luton, England: University of Luton Press/John Libbey Media “Communication Research and Broadcasting, No. 12,”; 1997—$32.00 paper, ISBN 1–86020–528–3, 246 pp., photos, tables, diagrams, notes, abbreviations)

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND GLOBALIZATION: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION edited by Ali Mohammadi (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997—$75.00/26.95, ISBN 0–7619–5553–4 hard, 0–7619–5554–2 paper, 228 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN WESTERN ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EASI edited by Eli M. Noam (New York: Oxford University Press “Global Communications,”; 1997—$55.00, ISBN 0–19–510202–9, 244 pp., tables, charts notes, references, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA edited by Eli M. Noam (New York: Oxford University Press “Global Communications,”; 1998—$65.00, 1SBN0–19–510200–2, 265 pp., tables, chapter references, index)

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR GOVERNMENT (Paris: Organization for Economic Co‐operation and Development “STI: Science, Technology, Industry,”; 1997—$9.00 paper, ISBN 92–64–15512–0, 84 pp., annex, notes)

MEDIA COURSES UK edited by Lavinia Orton (London: British Film Institute/Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997 [5th ed.]—$15.95, paper, ISBN 0–85170–649–5, 230 pp., appendices, index)

MEDIA LAW AND REGULATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: NATIONAL, TRANSNATIONAL, AND U.S. PERSPECTIVES by Emmanuel E. Paraschos (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1998—$44.95, ISBN 0–8138–2807–4, 288 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

STATISTICAL YEARBOOK ‘98: FILM, TELEVISION, VIDEO AND NEW MEDIA IN EUROPE (European Audiovisual Observatory, 76 Allee de la Robertsau, F‐67000 Strasbourg, France—890ff or about $150.00, paper, ISBN 92–871–3590–8, 412 pp., charts, tables, notes)

CHANGING CHANNELS—THE PROSPECTS FOR TELEVISION IN A DIGITAL WORLD edited by Jeanette Steemers (Luton, England: John Libbey Media, University of Luton Press, 1998—£14.95, ISBN 1–86020–544–5, 156 pp., figures, bibliography, index)

NETWORK COMPETITION FOR EUROPEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Oliver Stehmann (Oxford University Press, 1995—£40.00, ISBN 0–19–828925–1, 327 pp., figures, tables, glossary, index)     

Technology and culture

INTERFACE CULTURE: HOW NEW TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMS THE WAY WE CREATE AND COMMUNICATE by Steven Johnson (San Francisco: HarperEdge, 1997‐$24.00, ISBN 0–06–251433–4, 272 pp., index)

IMMERSED IN TECHNOLOGY: ART AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS edited by Mary Anne Moser with Douglas MacLeod (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997‐$22.50, ISBN 0–262–63183–0, 368 pp., technical glossary, 64 illustrations, 18 in color)

INTERNET DREAMS: ARCHETYPES, MYTHS, AND METAPHORS by Mark Stefik (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996‐$30.00/$15.00, ISBN 0–262–19373–6 hard, 0–262–69202–3 paper, 412 pp., further reading, sources, contributors, index)

POSTMORTEM FOR A POSTMODERNIST by Arthur Asa Berger (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press/Sage, 1997‐$36.00/17.95, ISBN 0–8039–8910–2 hard, 0–8039–8911–0 paper, 184 pp., cartoons, bibliography, index)

THE NETWORKED SOCIETY: HOW TECHNOLOGIES ARE TRANSFORMING MARKETS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS: A Report of The Fifth Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology, Aspen, Colorado, August 15–18, 1996 by David Bollier and Charles M. Firestone (Washington: The Aspen Institute, 1997‐$10.00, ISBN 0–89843–213–8, 43 pp., endnotes, appendix)

THE McDONALDIZATION OF SOCIETY: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL LIFE by George Ritzer (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1997 [2nd ed.]—$17.95, paper, ISBN 0–8039–9076–6 hard, 0–8039–9077–4 paper, 265 pp., bibliography, index)

PARCHMENT, PRINTING, AND HYPERMEDIA: COMMUNICATION IN WORLD ORDER TRANSFORMATION by Ronald J. Deibert (New York: Columbia University Press “New Directions in World Politics,”; 1997‐$49.50/$ 17.50, paper, ISBN 0–231–10712–9 hard, 0–231–10713–7 paper, 329 pp., illustrations, charts, index)

BEYOND THE HORIZON: COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE by Stephen Lax (Luton, England: John Libbey Media/University of Luton Press, 1997—price not given, ISBN 1–860–20514–3 paper, 133 pp., technical illustrations, index)

CYBERSCHOOLS: AN EDUCATION RENAISSANCE by Glenn R. Jones (Englewood, MA: Jones Digital Century, Inc., 1997—$19.95, ISBN 1–885400–60–8, 180 pp., appendices, index)

THE ORYX GUIDE TO DISTANCE LEARNING: A COMPREHENSIVE LISTING OF ELECTRONIC AND OTHER MEDIA‐ASSISTED COURSES by William E. Burgess (Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1997 [2nd ed.]—$98.50, ISBN 1–57356–073–1, 497 pp.)

THE U.S. ALL MEDIA E‐MAIL DIRECTORY: COMMUNICATE VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL WITH MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER, TV AND RADIO MEDIA AND CONTACTS NATIONWIDE by Paul J. Krupin (Kennewick, WA: Direct Contact Publishing, 1997‐$49.00, ISBN 1–885035–03–9, 229 pp., index)

THE RISE, DECLINE, AND RENEWAL OF SILICON VALLEY'S HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY by Dan M. Khanna (New York: Garland “Garland Studies on Industrial Productivity,”; 1997‐$52.00, ISBN 0–8153–2724–2, 182 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, index)

THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF KNOWLEDGE‐BASED RESOURCES IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY by Russell W. Wright (New York: Garland “Garland Studies on Industrial Productivity,”; 1997‐$37.00, ISBN 0–8153–2785–4, 108 pp., tables, diagrams, bibliography, index)

MOTHS TO THE FLAME: THE SEDUCTIONS OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY by Gregory J. E. Rawlins (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997‐$10.00, paper, ISBN 0–262–68097–1, 184 pp., subject index)

TIME DETECTIVES: HOW SCIENTISTS USE MODERN TECHNOLOGY TO UNRAVEL THE SECRETS OF THE PAST by Brian Fagan (New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1995‐$14.00, paper, ISBN 0–684–81828–0, 288 pp., index)

COMMUNICATION, TECHNOLOGY, AND POLITICS IN THE INFORMATION AGE by Gerald Sussman (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997‐$56.00/$27.95, ISBN 0–8039–5139–6 hard, 0–8039–5140‐x paper, 317 pp., tables, references, subject index)

THE NEW COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES by Michael M.A. Mirabito with contributions by Barbara Morgenstern (Boston, MA: Focal Press, 1997 [3rd ed.]—$32.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–80258–6, 256 pp., index)

COORDINATING THE INTERNET edited by Brian Kahin and James H. Keller (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press “Publication of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project,”; 1997‐$25.00, paper, ISBN 0–262–11230–2 hard, 0–262–61136–8 paper, 491 pp., glossary of acronyms, tables, charts, notes, index)

THE INTERNET & WORLD WIDE WEB: THE ROUGH GUIDE by Angus J. Kennedy (London and New York: Rough Guides [distribution by Penguin Group], 1997‐$8.95, paper, ISBN 1–85828–288–8, 432 pp., illustrations, index)

TELECOMMUTING: MODELING THE EMPLOYER'S AND THE EMPLOYEE'S DECISION‐MAKING PROCESS by Adriana Bernardino (New York: Garland “Garland Studies on Industrial Productivity,”; 1996‐$46.00, ISBN 0–8153–2723–4, 169 pp., tables, charts, references survey instruments, index)     

Professional Readings on Librarianship and the Web

Abstract

BUILDING BRIDGES:COLLABORATIONWITHINANDBEYOND THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY. Langley, Anne, Edward Gray, and KTL Vaughan. Oxford: Chandos, 2006, 164 pp., £39.95, ISBN 1-84334-151-4. Reviewed by Allison Ondrasik King

THE CULTURE OF EVALUATION IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES. Crawford, John. Oxford: Chandos, 2006, 208 pp., £39.00, ISBN 1-84334-101-8. Reviewed by Stacy L. Voeller

ETHICAL DECISION MAKING FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES. Anderson, Cokie. Oxford: Chandos, 2006, 156 pp., £39.95, ISBN 1-84334-149-2. Reviewed by Stephen Shaw

HELP SEEKING IN ACADEMIC SETTINGS: GOALS, GROUPS, AND CONTEXTS. Karabenick, Stuart A., and Richard S. Newman (Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006, 336 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-8058-5220-4. Reviewed by Eric Meyers

ITMANAGER'SHANDBOOK:GETTINGYOURNEWJOBDONE. 2nd ed. Holtsnider, Bill, and Brian D. Jaffe. Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann, 2006, 632 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-12-370488-X. Reviewed by

OPEN SOURCE DATABASE DRIVEN WEB DEVELOPMENT. Dunlap, Isaac Hunter. Oxford: Chandos, 2006, 230 pp., £39.95, ISBN 1-84334-161-1. Reviewed by Alexander Samuel Popowich

THE PERSONA LIFECYCLE: KEEPING PEOPLE IN MIND THROUGHOUT PRODUCT DESIGN. Pruitt, John, and Tamara Adlin. Amsterdam: Morgan-Kaufman, 2006, 744 pp., $59.95, ISBN 0-12-566251-3. Reviewed by Patricia Cristina Nascimento Souto

WEB 2.0 AND LIBRARIES: BEST PRACTICES FOR SOCIAL SOFTWARE. Stephens, Michael. Special issue of Library Technology Reports 42, no. 4 (July/August 2006). Chicago, IL: ALA TechSource (American Library Association), 68 pp., $63.00, ISSN 0024-2586. Reviewed by Erin McCaffrey     

Books and publishing

RECIPES FOR READING: COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS, STORIES, HISTORIES edited by Anne L. Bower (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997‐$45.00, ISBN 1–558–49088–4, 271 pp., photographs, bibliographical references)

FROM A SINGLE WINDOW: MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY AND ITS PRESS, 1947–1997 by Maurice Hungiville (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998‐no price available, ISBN 0–8701–3429–9, 150 pp., photos, notes, bibliography, index)

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT: ACCESS IN THE VIRTUAL LIBRARY edited by Maureen Pastine (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 1997–149.95, ISBN 0–7890–0385–6, 225 pp., bibliographies), is an uneven collection of contributed essays co‐published as a special issue of the journal Collection Management (22: 1–2, 1997).

SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING: THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER edited by Robin P. Peek and Gregory B. Newby (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996‐price not given, ISBN 0–262–16157–5, 363 pp., notes, index)     

Book Reviews

Classification Made Simple (2nd edn) by Eric J. Hunter Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2002, Price £18.00, 160 pp., paperback, ISBN 0‐7546‐0795‐X Internet Law and Regulation (3rd edn) edited by Graham J.H. Smith Sweet & Maxwell, 2001, £145.00, 778 pp., hardback. ISBN 0‐421705906 Super Searcher, Author, Scribe: Successful Writers Share their Internet Research Secrets by Loraine Page (series editor Reva Basch) CyberAge Books, 2002, $24.95, 225 pp. ISBN: 0910965587