Review of Robert B. Reich, \u3cem\u3eThe Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism\u3c/em\u3e

In his latest book, The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st-Century Capitalism, Robert B. Reich, political economist at Harvard\u27s John F. Kennedy School of Government takes issue with the statement made by President Bush in his 1989 inaugural address: We have more will than wallet, but will is what we need. Reich believes We have the wallet, but do we have the will? is the real question that Bush should pose to the American public

Review of \u3cem\u3eLingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life\u3c/em\u3e

Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life offers scholars in the humanities, broadly conceived, a forum for debate on issues in higher education, with the reformulation of the liberal arts agenda figuring prominently. Launched with a successful trial balloon issue in June 1990, followed with regular bimonthly issues beginning in December 1990, Lingua franca is a gutsy, timely, and topical review of the academy and might be characterized as a grassroots version of the Chronicle of Higher Education

Review of Joan E. Seiber, ed., \u3cem\u3eSharing Social Science Data: Advantages and Challenges\u3c/em\u3e

This concise and straightforward collection of essays, written by leading authorities who create, document, disseminate, and use social science data, builds on the earlier, seminal report of the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council, Sharing Research Data (National Academy Press, 1985). Subsequent conferences focusing on social science data sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1988 and 1989 inspired much of the work in this volume

Afterword: Organizing for Western European Studies: The Pioneering Stage

In his 1975 essay, Library Resources on Western Europe in the United States: A Critique, Erwin Welsch, social studies bibliographer at the University of Wisconsin, lamented the absence of an organizational structure that would provide for the exchange of ideas, on a regular basis, among librarians and researchers concerned with Western Europe. One result of the lack of a national interaction among faculty members and librarians on any but the local level.. .is a failure to develop a national consciousness among librarians of the current directions of social, scientific and historical research on Western Europe and the demands these will place on the library. As a first priority, Welsch recommended the establishment of a formal organization to provide for professional interaction and exchange of information

The United Nations Scholars\u27 Workstation at Yale University

This chapter describes the creative and technical processes that led to the realization of a rich and dynamic academic tool, offering a guided tour through the development, funding, design, content, and use of a World Wide Web (WWW) site devoted to the United Nations (UN) system. Launched on the Internet as a WWW site in May 1995, the United Nations Scholars\u27 Workstation at Yale University provides electronic access to information in three areas: Yale\u27s academic program in United Nations Studies and the Independent Working Group on the Future of the United Nations, headquartered at Yale; descriptions of the Yale Library\u27s UN depository collections, reference tools, and numeric data; and other Internet sites created mainly by UN agencies. Designed to meet primarily the needs of students, faculty, and researchers, the Scholars\u27 Workstation attempts to bring together in one convenient site the texts, documents, finding aids, maps, and data sets most useful to scholars pursuing the study of the UN system. It aims to serve as an electronic table of contents and index to major resources by and about the UN through an organizational structure that encourages browsing by topic but also offers searching by key word

Family Values: Lessons in Material Culture

As a research librarian for the past twenty years, I have often envied the scholar who made a serendipitous discovery in the stacks — a stash of historic letters tucked inside a book, an adventurer’s lost diary, a rare book shelved alongside the ordinary. Little did I imagine that a chain of such discoveries would occur in my own life when six months after my mother’s death I traveled from my home in New Haven, Connecticut, back to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, to spend a week with my father organizing family memorabilia

Review of Irving Louis Horowitz, \u3cem\u3eCommunicating Ideas: The Politics of Scholarly Publishing\u3c/em\u3e

Communicating Ideas is the second expanded edition, released in a paperback by Transaction Publishers, of a book first issued by Oxford University Press in 1986 under the alternate subtitle The Crisis of Publishing in a Post-Industrial Society. Although the subject, scholarly communication, is of interest to academic librarians, the way that the book has been assembled exemplifies some of the more troubling aspects of academic publishing today

Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library

This report updates and expands on A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services, originally commissioned by the DLF as an internal report in summer 2003, and released to the public later that year. It highlights major developments affecting the ecosystem of scholarly communications and digital libraries since the last survey and provides an analysis of OAI implementation demographics, based on a comparative review of repository registries and cross-archive search services. Secondly, it reviews the state-of-practice for a cohort of digital library aggregation services, grouping them in the context of the problem space to which they most closely adhere. Based in part on responses collected in fall 2005 from an online survey distributed to the original core services, the report investigates the purpose, function and challenges of next-generation aggregation services. On a case-by-case basis, the advances in each service are of interest in isolation from each other, but the report also attempts to situate these services in a larger context and to understand how they fit into a multi-dimensional and interdependent ecosystem supporting the worldwide community of scholars. Finally, the report summarizes the contributions of these services thus far and identifies obstacles requiring further attention to realize the goal of an open, distributed digital library system

Review of Philip G. Altbach and Edith S. Hoshino, \u3cem\u3eInternational Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia\u3c/em\u3e

This ambitious volume calls upon a cadre of international specialists, ranging from scholars to practitioners, to inform the reader about the past and future status of book publishing. Recognizing the dearth of research and analysis devoted to book publishing as both a commercial and cultural endeavor, editors Philip G. Altbach and Edith S. Hoshino have constructed a balanced and timely state-of-the-art review that is useful in not only library reference collections but also the offices of acquisitions librarians, collection development managers, area studies specialists, editors, publishers, booksellers, and savvy suppliers

Research Guide to Libraries and Archives in the Low Countries

This guide, eight years in the making, owes its existence to the Council of European Studies (CBS) at Columbia University. Conceived in 1982 as part of the CBS research resources series for scholars planning a first research trip abroad, it complements pre-dissertation grants awarded by the Council to doctoral candidates in the humanities and social sciences. Earlier volumes in the series, Research resources: libraries and archives in Germany (1975) and Research resources: libraries and archives in France (rev. ed., 1979), both authored by Erwin K. Welsch of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, served as a model and source of inspiration. Although it resembles the earlier CBS guides, this one hopes to appeal to seasoned scholars as well as newcomers by consolidating information into a single source. In recent years the National Endowment for the Humanities has fostered a new program, Travel to Collections, which provides travel stipends for researchers using library and archival collections abroad. For these and other scholars, the guide intends to substitute groundwork at home for legwork abroad by helping them to plan their itineraries abroad in advance. Placed on the reference shelf in European libraries, the guide may also serve foreign researchers in identifying additional collections of interest to their quests