Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship (2nd edition)

This edited anthology comprises 30 chapters in 6 areas: library administration, collection development and management, teaching, knowledge creation/scholarship, buildings and physical spaces and promotion and marketing. The foreword, written by former MOMA library director Clive Phillpot, begins, “Why is there a demand for a handbook of art and design librarianship? […] Would not a handbook of librarianship be enough?” (p. xvii). The rest of volume vacillates between two different answers to those questions. The content is generally excellent, but often not truly specific to art and design libraries. Much of the book would make a good handbook of librarianship, while...