<b>Rajendra Kumbhar.</b> <i>Library Classification Trends in the 21st Century</i>. Oxford, U.K.: Chandos Publishing, 2012. Distributed in the U.S. by Neal-Schuman Publishers. 172p. alk. paper, $80 (ISBN 9781843346609). National Library: 015863081.

of its collection was, perhaps, the special contribution of the AAS to scholarship in the mid-20th century. But it was not until the last quarter of the 20th century that the society was able to develop and fund an ambitious fellows program that helped make it a truly national center for research and learning on American history. I hasten to note that, while the AAS has remade itself as a " national center, " it has not done so at the expense of its core identity. While it could have changed its name to " Center for … " , as so many other places have, it has chosen not to. We have too many " centers, " frankly. So, the AAS is still the American Antiquarian Society, going strong after 200 years. We should all rejoice. that his work endeavors to " trace the developmental trends in classification as reflected in the library and information science literature " of the early 21st century. He details a methodology that encompassed a literature review in the Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) that took place on April 3, 2010, and used the keyword " classification " with the applied date limitation of 1999 to 2009. His research is broken into ten chapters entitled: 1. The resulting work is broad in its coverage of various classification systems, schemes, and areas of classification. Topics run the gamut from well-known classification systems such as the Dewey Decimal Classification to more obscure systems that consider for classification such areas as figures of speech, ethnic data, and icons. It covers issues and disciplines that may not be readily apparent to the casual reader, as well as historical treatises of some subject areas. The work, however, fails to highlight or to clearly delineate current trends, development, and modern day influences that are impacting classification in the 21st century. A review of the references found that approximately a third of the sources listed were published in the years 1999–2002, which is an issue because the sources within these publication dates are likely be referencing trends taking place in the 20th century, not the 21st. In general , when citing sources with more recent publication dates, little of Kumbhar's text indicates that the authors were writing of trends or developments that are specific to the 21st century. To illustrate the weight given to earlier publications, consider the coverage of …