Digital Literacy Unpacked. Katharine Reedy and Jo Parker, eds. London: Facet Publishing, 2018. 240p. $87.99 (ISBN: 978-1-78330-197-3).

Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval. Edited by Ian Ruthven and Diane Kelly. London: Facet publishing, 2011, 296 pp. $ 89.95 (paperback). (isbn: 978-1-85604-707-4)

This book is a must if one is a student or researcher new to information science and, in particular, to information retrieval (IR) interaction and multimedia research. It will be especially valuable to those interested in human factors of IR in a social search context combined with information representation, access and interaction techniques, interface and evaluation methodology issues, and We...

Rank, reinvention and the Nobel Prize Experiment Eleven Peter Pringle (Bloomsbury Publishing, London; 2012) ISBN 978-1-4008-1401-7

The story of streptomycin is no ordinary tale. On August 23rd, 1943, in an isolated basement room, a brave and determined graduate student, Albert Schatz, began his quest to cure tuberculosis. He, with his soil bacteria and virulent tubercle bacilli, was banished to that room by his supervisor Selman Waksman, who, like everyone else, dreaded the infection. Waksman never visited Schatz’s workroo...

The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship. Eds. Amanda Gluibizzi and Paul Glassman. London, U.K.: Facet Publishing, 2010. 330p. paper, $115 (ISBN: 9781856047029)

ing experiences of critical library instructors within various institutional settings, such as community colleges, service-learning programs, and high schools. Topics presented in this section include the importance of collaboration between librarians and departmental faculty, and the overlap between service-learning and information literacy. Section four discusses the use of un-conventional te...

Sensory Perceptions in Language, Embodiment and Epistemology, Annalisa Baicchi, Rémi Digonnet, & Jodi L. Sandford (Eds.) (2018), Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-91276-9

M-libraries 2: A Virtual Library in Everyone's Pocket. Eds. Mohammed Ally and Gill Needham. London: Facet Publishing, 2010. 273p. Paperback, $105 (ISBN 9781856046961). LC 2010-478224

cacy or outreach opportunities. Included are theory and case studies all designed to aid the reader in defining ideas for implementing, sustaining, or growing programs that will help them explore and contextualize advocacy. The book explores each of three areas in-depth—advocacy, outreach, and engagement—and offers a wealth of suggestions. It also delivers a no-nonsense “now is the time” messag...