“Only connect” as the poet said, and librarians, time and time again, prove how adept and ingenious they are at connecting, networking, sharing. It seems to be one of the defining marks of the profession that librarians share and collaborate enthusiastically and effectively. This collection of articles by a wide variety of reputable and authoritative writers shows how advanced the co‐operative spirit is in Canadian and American libraries of all types. Whilst heavily North American in flavour and content these writings should prove of interest and value to many British LIS professionals and will also be useful for many LIS students.
Snyder, Carter and Soltys write an interesting article on technology based library cooperation in Illinois. Kranich's paper on libraries and citizenship – something of growing interest in the UK – has good examples shown of library involvement with the democratic process, censorship issues and civic information and outreach possibilities. Marks presents a good, well organised case study on library and supplier collaboration during the trialling and development of RFIDs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Well indexed and well produced this collection of papers – whilst rather earnest and almost totally North American in content – is worth reading for its good range of examples and its welcome display of creative and collaborative thinking by American and Canadian LIS practitioners.
