[Review of] Rebecca R. Martin. Libraries and the Changing Face of Academia: Responses to Growing Multicultural Populations

Authors

Deborah Hollis

Orginal Publication Date

1994

Journal Title

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Volume

14

Issue

ess/vol14/iss1

First Page

54

Last Page

55

Abstract

With great anticipation I sat down to read Rebecca R. Martin's work about academic libraries services to multicultural populations in the United States. I had hoped to read about reasoned and responsible approaches to this current hot topic. What I found instead was an anthology of the politically correct chatter pulled from the last ten years of library literature. Martin's book raises no new issues for the academic library administrator. Libraries And The Changing Face of Academia is a tame discussion of a serious issue that has kept academic librarians wringing their hands over the past decade. Rebecca Martin does do a good job of compiling this library literature into one volume. That is the problem with this work. She strings together all of the discussion and does not make any new statements.

Rights

Copyright, ​©EES, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1994