id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16544 Eden, Bradford Lee Difficult Decisions: Closing & Merging Academic Libraries. Sara Holder and Amber Butler Lannon, eds. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015. 253p. Paper, $58 (ISBN 978-083898791-9) 2016-09-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1236 45 34 Neal indicates that the 2013 ARL strategic plan defines the what of research library innovation, while this book provides the how. The book is divided into three sections: a historical perspective of library innovation and the theories of innovation (chapters 1–3), the research model and the results of the empirical analysis of innova- tion in ARL libraries (chapters 4–9), and additional avenues of research related to the innovation culture in libraries (chapters 10–12). cache/crl-16544.pdf txt/crl-16544.txt