Briefly Noted

Is Consulting for You? A Primer for Information Professionals, Ulla de Stricker. Chicago: American Library Association, 2008. 101p. $40; member price $36 (ISBN 0-8389-0947-7)

Ulla de Stricker, a Toronto-based consultant, discusses skill sets in demand and benefits and challenges as well as business plan, proposal, and contract development in this straightforward guide to the realities of consulting. This volume is useful for anyone considering consulting as a supplement to or replacement for library employment.

Knowledge Management: Historic and Cross-Disciplinary Themes, Danny P. Wallace. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2007. 235p. $60 (ISBN 978-1-59158-502-2)

In this ambitious work, Danny Wallace, professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma, takes on the slippery topic of knowledge management (KM). In an effort to comprehensively document the origins of and theoretical foundations for KM, Wallace explores and synthesizes a wide range of writings from education and philosophy to computer and information sciences. The book will be of particular interest to library and information sciences students and faculty.