reviews.indd 484 College & Research Libraries September 2006 year, and symbols representing specific librarian attributes. For example, the letter “B” is used to highlight films that contain a librarian with a bun and the letter “E” is used to denote films with librarians wear- ing eyeglasses. The authors also supply a list of 181 films that they did not consider and provide brief explanations why these titles were excluded. This interesting book is a good choice for film and popular culture collections.—Caroline Geck, Kean University New Challenges Facing Academic Librari- ans Today: Electronic Journals, Archival Digitization, Document Delivery, Etc. Eds. Jean Caswell, Paul G. Haschak, and Dayne Sherman. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 2005. 288 p. alk. paper, $119.95 (ISBN 0773460136). LC 2005-3895. This collection of thoughtful, albeit at times seemingly random, essays contains something of significance for every aca- demic librarian. The mix is eclectic and not every essay will be equally useful for every reader. Many of the essays were originally published in the electronic Journal of Southern Academic and Special Li- brarianship (JSASL), later rechristened the Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (E-JASL), and they certainly reflect the increasing influence of digiti- zation upon libraries and librarianship. The editors are all faculty members of the Library Science and Information School of Southeastern Louisiana University. New Challenges is divided into five sections: “Scholarly Communication,” “Instruction and Learning,” “Legal Is- sues,” “Metadata and Digitization,” and “Library Studies.” The essays in each chapter are only loosely related, but they do successfully address various aspects of the larger topic. For instance, the chapter titled “Legal Issues” contains only Rory McGreal’s “Stealing the Goose: Copy- right and Learning” and Eleanor Lomax and Linda Lou Wiler’s “The Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance and Academic Libraries in the Southeastern United States,” two essays on very diff er- ent topics that are tangentially connected only under the general rubric, “Legal Is- sues.” While both essays do in fact deal with legal issues, the essay on copyright is much more theoretical than the spe- cific, more utilitarian piece focusing on ADA compliance in a particular region of the country. Despite this imbalance, there is something to be gleaned from each essay. While the “Legal Issues” and “Meta- data and Digitization” sections are sparsely populated at two essays each, the substance of the book resides in the heftier sections, “Scholarly Communication” and “Instruction and Learning.” Here the editors have selected essays dealing with critical issues and debates such as the future of electronic journals and the vari- ous models for providing instruction in the area of information literacy. Academic librarians will be intrigued by the pos- sibilities offered in these helpful essays on trends in bibliographic instruction, illustrated with examples from various institutions. Many of the essays make the crucial point that practice must in- deed vary, predicated upon the mandate, mission, and organizational structures of individual libraries and academic institutions. Ideally, of course, academic librarians should have some authority to make or at least influence decisions that affect their user populations, but these pieces also acknowledge that this ideal is rarely realized. Despite the book’s fragmented design, that virtually dictates the lack of a central argument, in the aggregate this collection presents a broad overview of the current issues confronting academic librarians. New Challenges Facing Academic Librari- anship provides a welcome and needed sampling of the current scholarship in the field. It is a text to be savored, rather than devoured wholesale.—Lynne Maxwell, Villanova University The Reference Collection: From the Shelf to the Web. Ed. William J. Frost. Bing- hamton, N.Y.: Haworth, 2005. 310 Book Reviews 485 p. alk. paper, $34.95 (paper); $49.95 (cloth) (ISBN 0789028409;0789028395). LC 2004-22799. Edited by William J. Frost, retired librarian from Bloomsburg University, The Reference Collection: From the Shelf to the Web was co- published simultaneously as the Haworth Press journal The Reference Librarian num- bers 91/92. In his introduction, Frost states that this work was assembled around the theme of “the migration of reference materials in print to an electronic format accessible on the World Wide Web.” In today’s electronic environment, librarians are finding themselves using more and more Internet resources. The Reference Collection combines sixteen articles on all aspects of electronic reference sources, including “a survey of the most important Web-accessible reference tools.” In the first article, “Getting It Right— The Evolution of Reference Collections,” author Margaret Landesman traces the development and transformation of reference collections. She looks at print reference sources, automated searching through systems such as MEDLARS, commercial providers like DIALOG, CD- ROM, and Web databases. Landesman concludes that libraries will soon move away from “reference collections” since “given the convergence of formats, we can’t recognize a reference book when we see one. Nor can its electrons be pinned down to a ‘reference collection’.” The next few articles discuss a vari- ety of issues surrounding Internet and electronic reference sources in all types of libraries. In “Out of the Stack and into the Net: International Perspectives on Academic Reference Resources,” readers see how university libraries in Australia shifted their reference col- lection from print to electronic format. Authors Gaynor Austen and Carolyn Young also look at this transition in other English-speaking countries including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and South Africa. Jeanne Holba Puacz’s “Electronic vs. Print Reference Sources in Public Library Collections” explores the impact electronic sources have had on public libraries, specifically addressing accessibility, ready reference sources, research and free Web resources, and library-created resources for local history, genealogy, and archives. In his “Digital Versus Print: The Current State of Reference Affairs in School Libraries,” D. Jackson Maxwell examines the use of both print and digital sources and its implica- tions for the future of school libraries. The next several articles in this book are devoted to topics like plagiarism, ready ref- erence Web sites, and federated searching. Jennifer R. Sharkey and F. Bartow Culp’s “Cyberplagiarism and the Library: Issues and Solutions” offers librarians methods for detecting and deterring plagiarism in addition to listing a number of library Web sites that provide “informational guides for instructors and students on defining plagiarism, how to avoid it, and how to detect it.” In his “Structures and Choices for Ready Reference Web Sites,” Steven W. Sowards shares the results of his survey of one hundred library Web sites. Among the features he addresses are number of links, search method options, categorization of resources, and technical aspects like the use of frames and tool bars. Concluding this portion of the book is Stephen C. Boss and Michael L. Nelson’s “Federated Search Tools: The Next Step in the Quest for One-Stop-Shopping.” This article describes and evaluates federated search systems from four leading vendors: MetaLib by Ex Libris, ENCompass by Endeavor, Agent by Auto-Graphics, and WebFeat by WebFeat and Thompson ISI. The authors examine the basic design and searching capabilities, management of search results, user customization, and, in addition, administration, configuration, and maintenance for each system. The latter portion of the book consists of articles about Internet and electronic reference sources in a variety of disci- plines, including the humanities, science, medicine, social sciences, business, and education. These articles provide readers with descriptions of a number of impor- 486 College & Research Libraries tant Web sites and databases for each sub- ject area; the authors include both free and subscription-based resources. The book concludes with Lori Morse’s “100 Best Free Internet Web Sites: A Selected List.” She supplies readers with an annotated list of Web sites that are “useful for al- most all reference librarians, regardless of whether they are in an academic, public, school, or special library setting.” September 2006 The Reference Collection: From the Shelf to the Web is a timely work on the transition of reference sources to today’s increas- ingly electronic environment. With its insightful articles and helpful resources, The Reference Collection is sure to become a valuable tool for all librarians, especially those engaged in reference and collection development.—Nicole Mitchell, University of Alabama