Creators in the Academic Library: Collections and Spaces, Rebecca Zuege Kuglitsch and Alexander C. Watkins (eds.), ACRL, 2023. 278p. Softcover, $72.00. 9780838939826 (Review 2 of a 2-volume title)

Abstract

Creators in the Academic Library: Collections and Spaces, edited by Rebecca Zuege Kuglitsch and Alexander C. Watkins, is the twin pillar to the work by the same editorial team of Creators in the Academic Library: Instruction and Outreach. This second volume, Collections and Spaces, presents a similar approach of partnerships between faculty, staff, administrators, and students. Whereas Instruction and Outreach addressed the collaboration of faculty and students to design effective library instruction, this volume offers insight into the best practices of utilizing spaces, materials, methods, tools, and services. Kuglitsch and Watkins bring together an expansive group of authors, providing a combination of different perspectives that cover the concepts both of library as space and library as resource—with the two elements linked seamlessly throughout the narrative. Rather than compartmentalizing the aspects of collections and spaces into separate library related topics, the text fuses the two and presents both as a form of service to patrons.