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Beyond the Basics: The Management Guide for Library and Information Professionals (review)

time) are presented. Information visualization, distributed and cross-lingual IR, and Z39.50 standardization are also discussed. On the informetrics side, the author describes principles of Lotka’s, Bradford’s, and Zipf’s Laws. Calculations of impact factor, co-citation clustering, co-word analysis, and measures of literature growth, obsolescence, and S&T indicators are also presented. The exhaustive coverage makes the book a useful reference source for both teaching and research. In later chapters, the author indicates informetrics findings can be and in reality already have been embedded in IR research. The author foresees potential applications in simulation of IR systems, IR process design and implementation, and IR system evaluation. An informetric approach will gear IR research toward an orientation to use and users, as well as foster profound, progressive, and scientifically solid research fronts that carry great implications to IR system development. The key issue in assessing the true value of the book is what it has to offer compared to several established IR books including Baeze-Yates and Ribeiro-Neto’s Modern Information Retrieval (ACM Press, 1999), Korfhage’s Information Storage and Retrieval (Wiley Computer Publishing, 1997), and Meadow, Boyce, and Kraft’s Text Information Retrieval Systems (Academic Press, 2000). Obviously, informetrics has not been thoroughly handled in those works. Additionally, some recent concepts and findings are only covered in this book. On the other hand, some descriptions of relevant topics seem sketchy in this book, and discussion sometimes stops prematurely and refers to other books and articles for further readings. For instance, the summary on models of browsing and information seeking is somewhat superficial. The author fails to mention social network analysis software frequently used by bibliometric researchers. Two important growth measures—citations outside category (COC) and Brillouin’s diversity index—are not included. The informetrics chapter includes no coverage of discourse analysis or text linguistics. The research technique sections do not contain descriptions of basic statistical methods including ANOVA, regression, and factor analysis. This volume contributes significantly to information science research in that the author, for the first time, suggests and describes the connection between informetrics and IR. The book also provides a good review of concepts and measures in the two areas, including new research work. The problem is that the proposition of the conceptual linkage and shared frameworks between informetrics and IR is insufficiently addressed. Instead, key effort is put forth outlining what has already been done and proposed in research. The book would have been much more convincing in its effort to incorporate informetrics and IR if the core theory had been presented in more detail, including specifics on how to bridge the two areas and encourage further combination and dialog.