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A Review of “The Library Security and Safety Guide to Prevention, Planning, and Response”

distractions of reading online and how multitasking can actually make us less efficient overall. Surprisingly absent from the chapter (and indeed the book as a whole) was any discussion of Amazon’s Kindle. Given that it is the biggest player in the e-book market at the moment, I would have expected at least some prognostication regarding its impact, either now or in the future, on reading behavior. E-book readers in general were only mentioned in passing, with more text being given to electronic paper than to these increasingly popular devices. Also interesting were the two chapters addressing how students assess the credibility of information found in print and online. Chapter 6 focused on the perceptions of scholars in the United States, while chapter 7 highlights research done among college students in China and compares that to those of American college students. Academic librarians will not be surprised to learn that undergraduates in both countries are less adept at evaluating the credibility of sources than their graduate student counterparts. A third related chapter, on gender differences in reading preferences left me cold. The findings seemed dated and fairly insignificant. In short, the individual articles collected in this volume are worth more than the sum of their parts. A good literature review would provide at least as much benefit, at a fraction of the price. Then, following the author’s prediction, you can print them all out and annotate to your heart’s content.