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The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright, Hector Postigo. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012. 248p. $32.00 (ISBN 978-0-262-01795-4).

Libraries share many concerns in common with the digital rights movement, like the future of privacy, free speech, and the public domain in the online environment. But I suspect many librarians are unfamiliar with the struggles the digital rights movement has waged since the late 1990s to resist the escalating demands of the copyright industry to limit what we can do with our computers online. Hector Postigo’s The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright is an excellent analysis of many of these issues. Chapter three in particular is a masterful history of the development and passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The second part of the book is a series of case studies of legal battles that ensued based on provisions in the DMCA, well known to the hacking community but much less so to librarians. After reading The Digital Rights Movement I had a much greater appreciation for the work of the individuals and organizations involved and much better understanding of the movement’s importance for libraries. (FR)

Disability and the Internet: Confronting a Digital Divide, Paul T. Jaeger. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012. 225p. $55.00 (ISBN 978-1-58826-828-0).

The accessibility of academic library websites has received a lot of attention in the past few years. In 2010 the National Federation of the Blind brought suit against Penn State University for failing to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, arguing that its website, course management software, and library catalog were inaccessible to the blind. Paul T. Jaeger’s Disability and the Internet: Confronting a Digital Divide is one of the only books that treat disability and the Internet in a comprehensive way. He reviews the history and laws related to online accessibility, the multiple barriers to access, evaluation, and advocacy. There is also a substantial bibliography at the end of the book. This book should be of interest to librarians and library administrators tasked with bringing their websites up to legally and morally accepted standards. (FR)

Library Leadership in the United States and Europe: A Comparative Study of Academic and Public Libraries, ed. Peter Hernon and Niels Ole Pors. Santa Barbara: Libraries Unlimited, 2013. 231p. $60.00 (ISBN 978-1-61069-126-0).

Library Leadership in the United States and Europe: A Comparative Study of Academic and Public Libraries is an interesting collection that will give any aspiring library leader a nice mix of the theoretical and practical perspectives to consider. Leadership theories, national culture and institutional histories, economic and technological drivers, and leadership research are addressed. The themes and case studies are very current and acknowledge the challenges of leading in a time of austerity. With the exception of editor and contributor Peter Hernon, the contributors work in European libraries and library schools. There are detailed chapters on leadership in US, UK, Danish, and Scandinavian libraries. Most of the research data comes from surveys. Library Leadership in the United States and Europe would work well in a library school course on leadership. (FR) [End Page 428]

Web Analytics Strategies for Information Professionals: A LITA Guide, Tabatha Farney and Nina McHale. Chicago: ALA TechSource, 2013. 224p. $70.00 (ISBN 978-1-55570-897-9).

Web Analytics Strategies for Information Professionals is a clearly written, well-organized guide to web analytics. Part 1 provides the basic knowledge one needs to know to get started, including a basic introduction and definitions, followed by information on selecting and evaluating a Web analytics tool, collecting data, creating reports, and communicating results. Part 2 offers case studies from libraries at Kansas State University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; University of Denver; and the New York City College of Technology that address website revisions and redesigns, OPAC usage, and website security. The appendices include a glossary, profiles of Web analytics tools, and a bibliography. This is a useful and easily accessible guide to anyone interested in Web analytics. (FR) [End Page 429]

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