Abstract
In a real sense each of these books is a result of challenges that face academic and research libraries in higher education and sea change they are undergoing. Cheryl LaGuardia and Charles Schwartz have each edited a collection of essays intended to address major themes facing academic libraries and thereby to suggest a sort of road map to future and solutions to problems with which authors' deal. Both of these edited works grapple with classic problems of such collections-creating a strong central theme and cohesive analysis of disparate parts. They do so with a significant difference in success. By contrast, Deborah J. Grimes' work (based on her 1993 dissertation), grapples with forces of change by exploiting old metaphor that the library is heart of university to ask chief executive officers (CEOs; that is, presidents) and chief academic officers (CAOs; that is, provosts and vice presidents' for academic affairs) and to derive conclusions about purpose and directions that libraries should take. This methodology presents its own problems. The fifteen essays in Recreating Academic Library: Breaking Virtual Ground are grouped into five parts. Part I: An Implicitly New Para-
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