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(Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979) is principally a 
guide to secondary literature about Miller, 
though, unlike Hayashi, he provides brief 
synopses of and quotations from the 
books, essays, and articles cited. Finally, 
and most massively, is Stefani Koorey’s 
889-page book Arthur Miller’s Life and 
Literature: An Annotated and Comprehen-
sive Guide (Lanham, Md, and London: 
The Scarecrow Press, 20000. This work 
provides brief descriptions of the primary 
printed works of Miller (though without 
the bibliographic detail provided by Cran-
dell), as well as annotated descriptions of 
secondary sources, a guide to manuscript 
locations, and descriptions of electronic 
media resources such as film adaptations, 
sound recordings, and Internet sites. For 
most students and researching critics of 
Miller’s work, Koorey’s work is probably 
the most useful of all the titles mentioned 
in this review and the most essential for 
an academic library to possess.

However, Crandell’s book is a fine 
complement to Koorey’s book, due to its 
extensive bibliographic detail—especially 
of the illustrated “Separate Works”—and 
for its list of translations. For a collector 
of Miller’s printed works, either private 
or institutional, Crandell’s book is a wise 
and useful guide.

A few small points of criticism may be 
made. Though for the most part Cran-
dell’s book is meticulous in its accuracy, a 
spot check of citations did find one error. 
In his entry for the appearance of Miller’s 
story “Bees” in an issue of the Michigan 
Quarterly Review, Crandell transcribes its 
subtitle as “Story (to be spoken)” when 
it actually is “A Story to Be Spoken.” It 
would have been helpful within the main 
entries for A View from the Bridge to note 
that later versions of text had been greatly 
revised since its initial appearance as a 
one-act play intended to be staged with 
the one act A Memory of Two Mondays. 
Likewise, in the translations section, one 
does not know which version of A View 
from the Bridge has been translated. Finally, 
though one can well understand that this 
work is not intended to be a catalogue of 

the many stage productions of Miller’s 
works, the notation of important film and 
television adaptations of works written 
for the stage would have been appreci-
ated, and quite appropriate for an artist 
with such ties to the film world.

Physically, Arthur Miller: A Descriptive 
Bibliography is a handsome production, 
with fine paper, generous margins, and 
spacious placing of type, making it much 
easier and more pleasant to read than 
many bibliographies, where cost cutting 
may overrule elegance. However, it does 
seem that, for a book costing almost 
$200.00, it might have been a better deci-
sion to have substituted printed color 
illustrations for the grayscale ones, rather 
than put them on a separate CD-ROM. 
For ease of use that would have been a 
better and less redundant solution, and 
particularly for libraries, but also for 
individual owners it would have been a 
more secure and durable choice.—Scott 
Krafft, Northwestern University. 

A Different Kind of Web: New Connec-
tions between Archives and Our Users. 
Ed. Kate Theimer. Chicago: Society of 
American Archivists, 2011. 369p. alk. 
paper, $69.95 (ISBN 1931666393). LC 
2011-027013.

Kate Theimer, editor of A Different Kind of 
Web, has assembled an outstanding col-
lection of case studies and commentaries 
that reflect on the changing roles and 
relationships of archives and archivists 
with their users in a Web 2.0 world. One 
of the rich qualities of this book is the 
wide selection of case studies (13 total) 
that represent not only a variety of ar-
chives, but also all stakeholders within 
the profession and its beneficiaries. From 
the special collections of large academic 
research institutions such as the Univer-
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and 
the tens of millions of records from the 
National Archives of Australia, to the 
smaller institutions of Dickerson College 
and recently established Jewish Women’s 
Archives, this book provides a variety of 
archival flavors. 



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Each case study examines how an 
archive has used a Web 2.0 tool such as 
wikis, blogs, Flicker, Facebook, YouTube, 
and Second Life. The case studies fol-
low the general layout: overview of the 
repository and the “business drivers,” 
implementation of the tool and results, 
challenges and lessons learned, and fu-
ture directions. Most of these case studies 
are short (10 to 15 pages long) and contain 
what one might expect after having al-
ready been exposed to these technologies. 

While many of the chapters focus on 
different uses of Web 2.0 technologies, 
they carry the common theme of interac-
tion with their users. The Louis Round 
Wilson Special Collections Library at 
UNC, for example, shares how they 
created a blog that keeps their staff, do-
nors, and patrons aware of the progress 
on processing collections. The Prints & 
Photographs Division of the Library of 
Congress uses Flickr not only to provide 
historical images and information to the 
general public but also to harness interest 
from “Flickr History Detectives” to fill in 
gaps of missing information about im-
ages such as names of unknown people 
or locations. 

Some of the information in the case 
studies will naturally become outdated 
as technology evolves. However, the real 
selling point of this book is how these 
experiences fit into broader contexts and 
examine complex issues surrounding the 
use of Web 2.0 tools. The section entitled 
“Balancing Archival Authority with En-
couraging Authentic Voices to Engage 
with Records,” for example, discusses 
issues of archival authority. These themes 
are then woven throughout the following 
five case study chapters. 

The remainder of the book consists of 
a section of commentaries, which include 
interesting solicited interview questions 
from the user ’s perspective (historian, 
genealogist, and companies that provide 
access to archival documents). The last 
three chapters discuss the current needs 
that archivists should keep in mind in the 
Web 2.0 environment, such as privacy or 

potential versus real benefits, barriers 
(old and new) of these technologies, and 
the possible futures with existing and 
futuristic Internet tools. 

Overall, A Different Kind of Web is high-
ly recommended for institutions that have 
archives, especially for those who have 
or are considering the implementation 
of Web 2.0 technologies. This would also 
be an incredible resource for those enter-
ing into the archival profession. While 
the Internet tools discussed in this book 
will undoubtedly change over time, the 
principles discussed here will hold true 
in the years to come.—John Repplinger, 
Willamette University. 

Joel Silver. Dr. Rosenbach and Mr. Lilly: 
Book Collecting in a Golden Age. New 
Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll, 2011. 144p. 
$49.95 (ISBN 9781584562955). LC 
2011-030561. 

Readers of this journal will be familiar 
with Joel Silver, who has, for many years, 
served as Librarian and Curator of Books 
at the Lilly Library, Indiana University; 
has taught generations of students and 
staff the basics of bibliography and book 
history; and has written prolifically 
on books and the book trade. With the 
present title, he looks no further than 
his own backyard, focusing his atten-
tion on the founder and benefactor of 
his institution. Originally published in 
a limited edition in 2010, Dr. Rosenbach 
and Mr. Lilly reappears here in a fresh 
and more accessible Oak Knoll edition. 
It presents the correspondence between 
two giants of the book world in the 20th 
century: the collector, Josiah Kirby Lilly, 
Jr., and the illustrious bookseller, A.S.W. 
Rosenbach. The grandson of Eli Lilly, the 
patriarch of the pharmaceutical giant in 
Indianapolis, Josiah Lilly was a low-key 
but determined collector who, like many, 
did it by the book. Various books and lists, 
in fact, including the Grolier One-Hundred, 
which led him to the likes of Rosenbach. 
While Lilly bought from many dealers, 
Rosenbach was the giant of his day, and 
if your goal was assembling in the Grolier