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By locating his study in Washington, D.C., Greene makes clear that anti-Blackness gives shape to this period of capitalism. The promise of access: Technology, inequality, and the political economy of hope: By Daniel Greene, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. They have made a collective case that the Internet enables novel forms of capitalism, think surveillance capitalism or platform capitalism, and new modes of production, think heteromation and ghost work. As such, Greene's work will be read alongside other efforts to bring racial capitalism into studies of the Internet (see for example the synthesis proposed by McMillan Cottom, [5]). [Extracted from the article]

America Transformed: Mapping the 19th Century, edited by Ronald E. Grim and Allison K. Lange.: Boston: Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 2019. This catalogue is a wonderful reference piece for cartographers, historical geographers, historians of cartography, map collectors, map dealers and libraries. Leading the way in this kind of American map education has been the Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library, which has produced five outstanding map exhibitions, each accompanied by an exhibition catalogue. [Extracted from the article]

Creating a Culture of Evaluation: Taking Your Library from Talk to Action, by Presents a complete outcome-based framework for library service evaluation based on library users, staff, and stakeholders. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Defusing the Angry Patron: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians," by Rhea Joyce Rubin.

This article reviews the book "Enabling End Users: Information Skills Training," by Ann Poyner.

The article reviews the book "The Skeptical Business Searcher: The Information Advisor's Guide to Evaluating Web Data, Sites, and Sources," by Robert Beckman.

Reviews the book 'Helping the Difficult Library Patron: New Approaches to Examining and Resolving a Long-Standing and Ongoing Problem,' edited by Kwasi Sarkodie-Mensah.