W. Bernard Lukenbill. Research in Information Studies: A Cultural and Social Approach. Bloomington, Ind.: Xlibris, 2012, 422p. $23.99 (ISBN9781469179599). LC 2012-934936

of these user tasks in actual usage; this, in itself, should be a call for libraries to ask more of their library management systems and, possibly, of their own systems staff, to expose more useful data to the patron. Chapter 6 is specifically about RDA authority records, and how they are created according to the principles of FRAD. After a brief introduction to RDA and how it relates to FRAD, Jin provides 18 examples of brief RDA authority records, each with an explanation of how they use the FRAD concepts to describe and clarify entities and their relationships to other entities: while the structure of an RDA authority record is, at root, similar to that of an AACR2 authority record, RDA (and the FRAD structure) allows for greater levels of description and for clearer delineation of the relationships between concepts. This chapter is followed by an appendix mapping FRAD attributes and relationships to the corresponding RDA element, in an easily navigated table. In the buildup to the adoption of RDA, much of the focus has been on the construction of the descriptive bibliographic record. Demystifying FRAD is the first book to provide an explanation of and instructions for the creation of authority data, and it is well worth the wait: with the use of this book, the reader will both understand the principles behind the creation of authority records in general and according to the FRAD model, and also be able to create his or her own. Given that this book reaches the market just as RDA is being widely put into practice, Demystifying FRAD is both timely and valuable.—Deborah DeGeorge, University of Michigan. " Research is integrated into the whole fabric of modern-day society, " begins Lukenbill in writing Research in Information Studies; the second and equally important foundation for his writing is that intellectual theory is central to the heart of all kinds of research, including library and information science. Lukenbill, professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Aus-tin, offers an interesting and useful overview of the theoretical grounding common to many fields of research, especially in the humanities and social sciences, though the intended audience is librarians and information science professionals on various levels. The author's approach covers an extremely wide variety of disciplines, with strong examples from fields such as nursing and education; the emphasis for the reader is in every case the integration of …