John R. Turner. A Bibliography of Unauthorised American Editions of The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter 1904-1980. Stroud, U.K.: Ian Hodgkins & Co., 2012. 228p. alk. paper. $60.00 (ISBN 9780906460139)

ers take notes and keep track of their sources. Only chapter 5, " The Use of Archives and Special Collections, " attempts to analyze all eighty interview transcripts. It is curious that, with such a large base from which to draw data, the editors chose to compile only these thin " slices " rather than more comprehensive studies. The worth of the volume is severely limited by the small samples and the focus on transcripts from individual institutions. The differences noted in " How Faculty Members Use Journal Literature " (chapter 4), for example, would be more instructive if the author could also provide comparisons between institutions, between disciplines, or between faculty and students. In addition, the interviews took place in 2008, so the responses reflect a research landscape that has changed significantly in four short years. There is value in asking questions about how our faculty and students find and interact with library resources, but it is unclear how much value there is in the way the answers are presented here. The chapters do a fair job of pulling out common threads from their small sample sets, but in general do not do a good job of answering the more important question: " So what? " Chapter 6, " Personal Management of Scholarly Information, " goes into great detail on the filing systems and organizational principles used by faculty and graduate students (Do they store articles in print or electronic form? What labeling or naming conventions do they use? How do they take notes on articles and books?), yet the chapter does not provide any ideas on how or why this information could be useful to librarians in serving their users or to the XC Project team in designing next-generation research tools. The authors are to be applauded for the ambitious nature of their user research project and for the wealth of data they have collected. It is regrettable that they were not similarly ambitious in analyzing and reporting the results.—Timothy Hackman, University of Maryland. The origin of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, as well as that of some other classic Beatrix Potter stories, was in illustrated letters Potter wrote to the children of her former governess. At the suggestion of a friend, Potter became intrigued by the idea of converting these letters into published books and, as a first attempt, expanded one of them into what she titled …