Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship (review)

administration—but also alumni, IT staff, and even legislators because all of these persons can become involved when library challenges blow up into full-blown media circuses. As Jones points out, librarians cannot take for granted that all constituencies see the library as an asset (the various departments on campus, for example, are often budgetary competitors), and some may take advantage of bad publicity to make incursions on library funding. Jones cautions the reader not to accept at face value the perceived liberality of academe or to hold as a truism that the concept of academic freedom will be extended with equanimity to librarians. She notes that, in the academic world, challenges to library materials and policies often come from the left as well as the right; and she cites as an example the well-meaning but problematic institution of campus speech codes. This work covers the academic library functions around which censorship issues seem to swirl—collections, Internet access, exhibit spaces, programs, and meeting rooms—before taking on the thorny subject of guaranteeing privacy for library users. For each of these areas, the author provides several case studies that examine the challenges that might arise in academic libraries in the context of our times. For example, the chapter on collection development contains a case study on the acquisition and classification of books that are fakes, such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Jones’ work is especially strong in the final chapter, in which she examines the attitudes of current college students toward privacy and uses OCLC’s 2007 report Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World as a launching point for discussion. Here, too, the author discusses the little known, much less understood, Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA, which requires telecommunications companies to ensure that their equipment and services can conduct real-time electronic surveillance, without the knowledge of the person(s) under surveillance. The implications of this and other legislation discussed by Jones remain, to say the least, quite troubling. This book is recommended for purchase by all academic libraries. It would also provide an excellent overview for library school students hoping to work in college and university libraries.