reviews 202 College & Research Libraries March 2002 and Warner is that “the library commu- nity should not be overly optimistic con- cerning the immediate potential value of these technologies.” Intelligent Technologies can serve as a useful gateway for librarians interested in application of AI and expert systems. As intellectual technology continues to evolve, intelligent software will certainly have a place in the digital library, but questions about pace, cost, and alterna- tives abound. Although there is no doubt of a continual replenishing of the AI lit- erature in the computer science disci- plines, a search of the Library Literature database using the authors’ search strat- egy turned up only six new citations on the topic in the past year. Their caution- ary tone seems appropriate.—Rick Moul, Western North Carolina Library Network. Lazzaro, Joseph J. Adaptive Technologies for Learning & Work Environments, 2nd ed. Chicago: ALA (ALA Editions), 2001. 204p. $48, alk. paper (ISBN 0838908047). LC 2001-035284; $35, CD-ROM (ISBN 0838908144). Substantially revised from the 1993 first edition, the second edition of Adaptive Tech- nologies for Learning & Work Environments addresses the assistive technology needs of the learning disabled in addition to the needs of people with sensory, physical, and speech disabilities. Slimmed down from 251 to 204 pages, the second edition has eliminated the illustrations and individual product descriptions contained in the ear- lier edition. In their place are general over- views of categories of adaptive technolo- gies, with specific product and vendor in- formation located in five disability-specific appendixes. The work is divided into ten chapters. The first chapter provides an overview, in lay terms, of personal computer hard- ware. The necessity for the inclusion of a chapter on these basics is validated by statistics indicating that only one-quarter of people with disabilities own comput- ers and only one-tenth ever use the Internet. Chapter two is a general introduction to using keyboard and platform-specific, built-in accessibility features instead of a mouse to operate a computer. It addresses the Windows, Macintosh, and Unix plat- forms. Chapters three through seven dis- cuss technologies designed to assist indi- viduals with visual, hearing, motor, speech, and learning disabilities, respec- tively. Braille displays, visual indicator software, word-prediction software, touch screens, adapted switches, and speech-synthesis systems are some of the many adaptive technologies described that enable the disabled to use comput- ers on the job, at home, in the library, or at school. A few non-computer-related assistive devices, such as handheld mag- nifiers and text telephones, also are dis- cussed. Adaptive technology is not one-size-fits-all, nor is it plug-and-play. The necessity for building a solid foun- dation for adaptive technology in univer- sities, libraries, and other public facilities is described in chapter eight. This entails having an evaluation by an assistive tech- nology specialist prior to purchasing equipment and in providing training and technical support. Chapter nine is an overview on making intranets and the Internet accessible. Those needing more information on accessibility may want to consult chapter two of Barbara Mates’s Adaptive Technology for the Internet: Mak- ing Electronic Resources Accessible to All (ALA, 2000) or Michael Paciello’s Web Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities Index to advertisers Academic Press 163 ATLA 104 Annual Reviews 124 Archival Products 170 BIOSIS 150 Faxon cover 3 Haworth Press 138 ISI 110 Library Technologies 107 OCLC cover 2 Optical Society of America 103 Primary Source Microfilm cover 4 Book Reviews 203 (CMP Books, 2000). Chapter ten ad- dresses funding adaptive technology and covers personal, government, and private-sector sources of funds. Appendix materials comprise 50 per- cent of the book. Especially useful are those providing Microsoft Windows 98 and Apple Macintosh keyboard shortcuts (welcomed greatly by this Mac user with low vision). Moreover, there are appen- dices detailing product, platform, and vendor contact information for more than two hundred products, arranged by type of disability: visual, hearing, speech, mo- tor, and learning. The only outdated in- formation was found for Productivity Works (now isSound), which discontin- ued the selling, enhancing, and support- ing of its talking browser, pwWebSpeak, on January 1, 2001. The appendices also include a directory of national disability-related clearinghouses and or- ganizations. The directory is followed by a list of toll-free telephone hotlines of na- tional organizations concerned with dis- ability and children’s issues, appendices summarizing key provisions of adaptive technology and disability rights laws, and a list of RESNA Technology Assistance Project state contacts. The volume con- cludes with an eight-page subject index. Because the four-page table of contents provides a detailed outline of each chap- ter, the index is useful, but not essential as a finding tool. Much of the information covered by Lazzaro is similarly treated in Computer and Web Resources for People with Disabili- ties, 3rd ed. (The Alliance for Technology Access, 2000). With recent mergers and acquisitions among adaptive technology vendors, Lazzaro’s book is more up-to-date than the ATA volume. On the other hand, the ATA work provides a quick and uniform overview of a particu- lar adaptive technology, what it is used for, its potential users, which features to consider, and the costs. Adaptive Technolo- gies for Learning & Work Environments also complements Barbara Mates’s Adaptive Technology for the Internet, which is aimed primarily at librarians. Lazzaro’s work is more current than Mates’s with respect to adaptive technology and does not suf- fer from the high incidence of inaccurate URLs that is a problem in the Mates vol- ume. Written in nontechnical language for people with disabilities, Adaptive Technolo- gies for Learning & Work Environments is also a resource for employers, educators, service providers, and the families of those individuals. With ALA’s recent pas- sage of the Library Services for People with Disabilities Policy and its Century Scholarship (funding services or accom- modation for a library school student with disabilities admitted to an ALA-accredited library school), this is also a recommended read for librarians and library school faculty. Libraries with Lazzaro’s first edition will want to replace it with this one. Recommended for all types of libraries. Where appropriate, li- braries may want to consider the cross-platform CD-ROM version of the book, which makes the text accessible in HTML to users with disabilities.—J. Chris- tina Smith, Boston University. Tolzmann, Don Heinrich, Alfred Hessel, and Reuben Peiss. The Memory of Man- kind: The Story of Libraries Since the Dawn of History. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Pr., 2001. 188p. $39.95 (ISBN 1584560495). LC 00-68213. Imagine a neatly designed Bauhaus building that, having survived the war, is forced to accommodate an unantici- pated extension in 1950 and a whole new wing in 2001. The result is a pastiche of styles and functions. If you live in an “his- toric” house that has been adapted to dif- ferent iterations of modernity, you know what I mean. Entering the present book is not unlike walking through a piece of historic architecture that has not been well served by a succession of well-meaning owners. In 1925, Alfred Hessel, a professor at the University of Göttingen, published Geschichte der Bibliotheken, a short survey (Überblick) of libraries from ancient Alex- andria to the early twentieth century. 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