Interdisciplinarity and Academic Libraries. Eds. Daniel C. Mack and Craig Gibson. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2012. 238p. alk. paper, $62 (ISBN 9780838986158). LC2012-018651

As Dow notes, the " conflict between archivists and dealer/collectors comes down to a matter of perspective, " and she devotes an enlightening chapter examining the different perspectives and theoretical backgrounds of each group. She then creates a series of 17 case studies based on actual events and hypothetical situations, offering questions for consideration for each case, along with advice on how each case should be approached The volume concludes with a chapter on avoiding conflict and replevin, reminding archivists to adhere to archival best practices for security and documentation of their collections. Finally, she wraps up with advice on how to avoid replevin and, if it becomes necessary, how best to approach a replevin case. This book does an admirable job of illustrating many aspects of a complicated legal situation, providing archivists, collectors , and dealers with insight, analysis, and practical advice. Well-written and to the point, this volume is highly recommended for archivists and dealers alike.— It is not often that one encounters a collection of essays so thoroughly aligned in their approach and perspective as to merit reading the collection from cover to cover; yet such is the nature of this recently published collection in ACRL's Publications in Librarianship series (no. 66). Edited by Daniel C. Mack, Head of the George and Sherry Middlemas Arts Humanities Library at Penn State, and Craig Gibson, Associate Director for Research and Education at the Ohio State University, this work brings together 14 authors from across the landscape of academic librarianship, including administrators , department heads, catalogers, technologists, reference and instruction librarians, subject specialists, and professors of library science. Each author brings his or her unique perspective to the effects that interdisciplinary work has wrought on higher education and, specifically, academic libraries; and each essay seemingly builds upon the foundation laid by those that came before it, a credit to the editors' choice of organization. Mack introduces the collection by defining interdisciplinarity and its related work: multidisciplinarity, cross-discipli-narity, and transdisciplinarity. A number of significant factors have led to the rise of interdisciplinary work in higher education and thus merit the importance of forming this collection of essays, namely: the internationalization of the academy, the increasingly global perspective of the university, the growth and proliferation of external partnerships, the conglomeration of electronic resources across disciplines, the evolution of search and retrieval systems that must account for multiple approaches to knowledge management, the …