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Book Review: Information Literacy Meets Library 2.0 edited by Peter Godwin and Jo Parker 2008, London: Facet, 188pp, £39.95, ISBN 9781856046374

disease control in a globally mobile society. Along with one or two other chapters, this illuminates the emerging internationalization of research collaboration in the field, in this case discussing work undertaken with grants from several agencies in the USA and China. Internationalization – or the absence of it in any meaningful sense – is discussed by Mezick and Koenig in a useful review of recent issues in education for information science in the remaining section. The other chapter discusses the forces impacting on the dissemination of information and the concept of the information commons, a concept which if fully implemented might overcome some of the barriers to the extension of the discipline. The first volume of ARIST appeared just as I was completing my own professional education in librarianship, and this one appears as I step down from full-time paid employment in the field. Some of the differences from the early days of ARIST are obvious. It has, for example, more than doubled in size. Some of the overall themes are, as the editor freely admits, those that appear in ARIST year after year, but the close examination that is focused on an ever-changing range of specialisms within those themes reflects our growing understanding of the complexities of the discipline and the need to bring new perspectives and insights from other disciplines to bear on them. This depth and diversity will challenge future practitioners and educators alike. As an aside about the continuing weakness of systems in the electronic age, this volume points to the continuing need for human intervention – in proofreading! Several of the pages quite clearly have different leading between lines of text, which is a minor irritant, initially making the reader wonder if there is some significance in that part of the text that called for the difference. Otherwise, and particularly at the current exchange rate for the US dollar, this volume is probably better value than many other printed texts in this field and others.