<b><i>International Students and Academic Libraries: Initiatives for Success</i></b>. Eds. Pamela A. Jackson and Patrick Sullivan. Chicago: American Library Association, 2011. 234p. alk. paper, $54.00 (ISBN 9780838985939). LC2011-040762.

and manuals for archival procedures published , and practicing archivists were on the job bringing order out of chaos. While Leland humbly claimed that he was not a professional archivist, Wosh, his champion, clearly demonstrates the impact he had on all these developments. Wosh achieves much in this book, making no claims that he can't substantiate , demonstrating a deft and scrupulous scholarship in the process. While praising Leland for his accomplishments, he never aggrandizes him and explains that other leaders have deserved the attention and acclaim they have received. Wosh notes Leland's elitism and racism (typical of his day) and frankly admits the deleteri-ous impact such factors historically have had on the profession. But in a very canny way, he proves the importance of archives by including primary materials, such as correspondence, that explicate his thesis in a way no footnotes could. And speaking of footnotes, they are uniformly helpful, along with the short prefaces that introduce many of the texts. An index and bibliographic essay also are of great use. Some of Leland's writings, as well as that of others germane to the topics under discussion, are included, and Wosh, who holds a PhD in history and who is an honored Fellow of the Society of Ameri-can Archivists, explains why some more readily available materials are not present. The images imbedded in the text are crisp and appropriate; and what is especially noteworthy in an edited volume of various articles is the lack of redundancy or overlap. The reminiscences and oral history of Leland's that end the volume, for instance, bookend the opening biographical essay in a most appropriate manner. While Wosh writes of Leland's tours of various repositories in Washington and the American South, he lets Leland give us the glorious details of the treasures he came across. It made this archivist feel as if he was accompanying an explorer on an Indiana Jones type of adventure, eavesdropping on an archival adventurer who came across abandoned buildings housing national treasures. Manuscripts of great intrinsic and informational value were literally at his feet as he fought his way through cobwebs and dripping chambers with teetering piles of paper. Meanwhile, his 1908 essay on using camera technology to provide preservation and access for rare materials may show digital archivists that their field may not be as new as they think. In significant ways, this superbly edited and overly modest …