Open AccessBook Review: The Library Innovation Toolkit: Ideas, Strategies, and Programs
Author(s) -
Matt Cook
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.55n1.66
Subject(s) - exhibition , theme (computing) , selection (genetic algorithm) , representation (politics) , point (geometry) , set (abstract data type) , sociology , library science , computer science , management , world wide web , political science , history , art history , mathematics , artificial intelligence , law , programming language , geometry , politics , economics
The Library Innovation Toolkit: Strategies, and Programs itself takes an innovative approach to the selection and exhibition of the content it presents. This deft representation of what it means to think broadly about the role and aims of the contemporary library is spread across six parts and sixteen individual chapters, with a subtle microcosm/macrocosm theme ultimately defining the book’s structure. Indeed, in the introductory chapter, editors Molaro and White point out that “[I]nnovation is not a process as much as it is an organizational (or departmental) culture, mind-set, or worldview” (xv).