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ing demands and expectations of users 
with those of staff and supervisors and, 
in some cases, the demands of the tenure 
process as well. 

The fourth section discusses managing 
change in library services. Topics covered 
include recommendations for managing 
change within a reference department 
such as defining the collection, analyzing 
user behavior and expectations, using staff 
skills and talents, implementing social 
media tools, and demonstrating the ne-
cessity of reference services. Other topics 
discussed include incumbent challenges 
and strategies of working as a manager 
in a previously vacant position and the 
importance of adapting to changing user 
needs as a public library branch manager. 

The fifth section offers recommenda-
tions for developing managerial skills. 
Topics include the importance of main-
taining performance evaluations with 
clear expectations and opportunities for 
training, relevant documentation, and 
support of administration and human 
resources personnel. Additional topics 
include the role of project management 
(project definition, planning, implementa-
tion, and assessment) and collaboration 
between library staff and departments in 
operational changes. 

This work offers varied perspectives 
and interesting strategies regarding the 
many challenges encountered by librar-
ian middle managers. A definite strength 
of the book is the breadth of coverage of 
preventative strategies for middle manag-
ers dealing with situational challenges. 
Specific chapters are also noteworthy for 
their focus and practical advice for both 
novice and experienced managers. Un-
fortunately, in many instances, the advice 
offered does not cover new ground; it 
essentially reiterates the truism that effec-
tive communication among staff, supervi-
sors, and users is crucial. Regardless, most 
readers will benefit from the management 
strategies offered for navigating the nu-
merous challenges of an ever-changing 
environment.—Anders Selhorst, Guilford 
Technical Community College.

Kathleen A. Hanna, Minday M. Cooper, 
and Robin A. Crumrin. Diversity Pro-
gramming and Outreach for Academic 
Libraries. Oxford, U.K.: Chandos Pub-
lishing, 2011. Distributed in the U.S. by 
Neal-Schuman Publishers. 180p. alk. 
paper, $80.00 (ISBN: 9781843346357).

The populations of higher education are 
becoming increasingly diverse, not only 
in terms of race, ethnicity, and gender 
identity but in terms of backgrounds, 
abilities, and socioeconomic status. For 
academic libraries, this is an area of 
opportunity since the academic library 
is often viewed as a “neutral” entity on 
campus. In Diversity Programming and 
Outreach for Academic Libraries, Hanna, 
Cooper, and Crumrin provide a wealth 
of information for academic libraries to 
either expand on or begin to create their 
own diversity programming and outreach 
services.

The authors, all librarians at Indiana 
University-Purdue University Indianapo-
lis (IUPUI), begin by defining diversity 
and describing the history of the urban 
IUPUI campus. The 512-acre campus has 
an ever-growing presence in the midst of 
the Indianapolis downtown area; the land 
now occupied by the sprawling urban 
campus was once made up of mostly 
immigrants from all over the world and 
included an especially large population of 
African Americans. Ever mindful of their 
place within the downtown area and in 
response to a 2006 Black Student Union 
report, the Office of Diversity, Equity, 
& Inclusion (ODEI) was created by the 
Chancellor’s Office in 2008. At that time, 
each academic unit was charged with 
organizing its own diversity committee 
or cabinet on campus, which led to the 
development of the IUPUI University 
Library Diversity Council (ULDC).

This book describes what IUPUI has 
done to increase efforts to make diversity 
a strategic priority. Throughout the book, 
which includes eight chapters, ten ap-
pendices, and various figures and tables, 
the authors describe the programming, 
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of their diversity efforts. They begin by 
defining diversity and the goal of their 
efforts, which is “to promote a positive 
work and learning environment free from 
any form of bigotry, harassment, intimi-
dation, threat, or abuse, whether verbal or 
written, physical or psychological, direct 
or implied.”

Each subsequent chapter describes the 
various activities, programs, and outreach 
efforts that were created to meet the goal 
and concludes with the challenges and 
opportunities to continued diversity ini-
tiatives. In chapters 1 and 2, the authors 
define diversity, provide the background 
information that led to an increase in 
their efforts, and include a sampling of 
international efforts at diversity outreach. 
This section also includes a description of 
the rich multicultural environment that 
offers most academic institutions unique 
opportunities to embrace diversity such 
as formal partnerships with global uni-
versities, study-abroad programs, and 
global internship opportunities.

Chapter 3 outlines the heart of the 
library’s efforts to increase diversity 
through the creation of an Undergradu-
ate Diversity Scholar Program designed 
to give undergraduates an opportunity 
for professional-level work that would 
enable them to gain a set of transferable 
skills. The program goals could easily be 
applied to any undergraduate scholar 
program for the purpose of building 
bridges between the academic library and 
undergraduates.

The best chapter of the book is chapter 
4, which includes examples of diversity 
programming and outreach as well as 
additional ideas and suggestions for 
projects, outreach, and programming. 
Successful projects detailed include the 
creation of exhibits and displays, both 
in print and virtual, that highlight the 
library’s multicultural collection, the 
various cultures represented by IUPUI’s 
student body, and the beginnings of an 
oral history collection. Outreach events 
included “Beyond Stereotypes,” de-
scribed as an opportunity for people to 
gather together and have conversations 
aimed at increasing understanding and 
acceptance of people from all different 
walks of life and open up dialogue on 
campus by addressing “taboo topics” in 
an open and respectful manner. 

At the end of the chapter are ten pages 
of suggestions for the reader to consider 
in creating their own programming and 
outreach efforts, such as collaborations 
with diverse faculty and staff organiza-
tions, working with academic advisors, 
arranging formal or informal meetings 
with diverse student employees, work-
ing with residence halls, embedding 
diversity issues in library instruction, 
student-related art exhibits, and targeted 
orientation for international students, just 
to name a few.

The next chapter is dedicated to the 
creation of an “International Newsroom,” 
which covers concept creation, imple-
mentation, lessons learned, and types 
of assessment to validate the success of 
the project. Chapter 6 describes unique 
initiatives that became opportunities for 
community collaborations, including a 
valuable list of tips and factors to consider 
for others wanting to collaborate in simi-
lar ways with their communities.

The last two chapters include assess-
ment efforts, including the importance 
of assessment in evaluating the success 
of their efforts to foster awareness and 
understanding, and the challenges and 
opportunities for continued diversity 
initiatives.

Index to advertisers
ACRL 2013 378
ACRL Publications 320
ALA Joblist 412
American Economic Assoc. 317
CHOICE Reviews Online 318
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Although the book is written by 
academic librarians and is dedicated to 
the efforts made by an urban academic 
library, its usefulness applies to all types 
of libraries wanting to create or build on 
diversity programming and outreach ef-
forts.—Marcy Simons, University of Notre 
Dame.

The Dr. Elliott & Eileen Hinkes Collection 
of Rare Books in the History of Scien-
tific Discovery. Ed. Earle Havens. Bal-
timore, Md.: The Sheridan Libraries, 
Johns Hopkins University, 2011. vii, 
105, [1] p. $35 (ISBN 9780983808602). 

This beautifully designed and illustrated 
publication is a fitting tribute to Dr. Elliott 
Hinkes, an alumnus of Johns Hopkins 
University, whose wife and son in 2010 
donated to the university’s Sheridan 
Libraries his small but carefully chosen 
collection of rare books pertaining to 
scientific discovery. A discerning con-
noisseur who sought the best available 
copies of books and journal articles in his 
fields of interest, Dr. Hinkes developed a 
collection of more than 250 titles dating 
from the late 1400s to 1953. He chose cop-
ies notable for their distinctive bindings, 
associations, or provenance.

The Hinkes Collection focuses on as-
tronomy and physics, but it also includes 
important works dealing with biol-
ogy, chemistry, meteorology, and optics, 
among other subjects. Here one finds 
truly seminal texts that advanced man’s 
knowledge of the world and its place in 
the universe. Although most of the collec-
tion dates from the time of the Industrial 
Revolution to the mid-twentieth century, 
a few important books published during 
the Renaissance connect the reader with 
some of the best “scientific” minds of 
Greek and Roman antiquity. Included 
are Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chroni-
carum (Book of Chronicles), published in 
Nuremberg in 1493; the third edition, in 
Latin, of Aristotle’s views on cosmology, 
De Caelo; and works by Aristarchus of 
Samos, Archimedes, Euclid, and Ptolemy. 
The works of Renaissance scholars in-

clude the 1566 Henricpetri Basle edition, 
with pages never cut, trimmed, or bound, 
of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De Revolutioni-
bus Orbium Coelestium, perhaps the most 
important item in the Hinkes Collection. 
The writings of Tycho Brahe, Johannes 
Kepler, and Galileo Galilei document 
their key astronomical observations, 
but none as colorfully as Johann Gabriel 
Doppelmayr’s Atlas Coelestis, published in 
Nuremberg in 1742. More modern works 
in the collection range from four titles 
by Isaac Newton to offprints of scientific 
papers by Ernest Rutherford and Albert 
Einstein. The discovery of the structure of 
DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick 
is described in three articles published 
in Nature.

Although the book contains a bib-
liography of the Hinkes Collection, its 
value lies chiefly in the erudite essays 
that place the collection in the context of 
the evolution of scientific thought and 
how it was disseminated. In addition 
to the preface, Dr. Havens, The William 
Kurrelmeyer Curator of Rare Books & 
Manuscripts in The Sheridan Libraries, 
describes the significance of the earliest 
titles in “Printing the Book of Nature: 
Renaissance, Scientific Revolution, & the 
Advent of the Printing Press.” This is fol-
lowed by “Reading & Interpreting Works 
of Scientific Discovery, from the Enlight-
enment to the Modern Era,” by Hanna 
Roman, a professor in the Department 
of German and Romance Languages and 
Literatures, and Simon Thode, a graduate 
student in the Department of the His-
tory of Science and Technology at Johns 
Hopkins. Twenty-five color illustrations 
enhance the impact of these thoughtful, 
well-documented articles.

A theme that runs throughout the 
book, including the preface by Winston 
Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Librar-
ies & Museums, is the value of the Hinkes 
Collection to students at Johns Hopkins. 
Clearly, these books and journal articles 
are not viewed as trophies that enhance 
the reputation of the libraries or as orna-
ments to be admired for their artistry