07/01/2015
Bonn (library & information science, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Furlough (HathiTrust) offer 11 chapters contributed by both practitioners and experts that reveal the diverse voices in discussion over the future of library publishing efforts. Topics range from faculty biases against librarian involvement in the scholarly publication process to the role of libraries in supporting student scholarship and scientific data access (part of the book's third section, on "what" libraries publish). The heart of the book, however, is its second section, in which authors address the vital question of "how" libraries publish, or the unique ways that different academic libraries are engaging in publishing projects. The result is a work that successfully convinces readers of the importance of publishing to academic libraries yet leaves exposed a number of glaring uncertainties about its ultimate direction and design. VERDICT An enlightening collection of perspectives on academic libraries as scholarly publishers. Recommended for academic librarians as well as others interested in scholarly communication.—Robin Chin Roemer, Univ. of Washington Lib., Seattle
