612 College & Research Libraries June 2021 Chapters 6 to 12 cover the turbulent 20th century. Ovenden looks at Germany’s attack on the Louvain University Library in 1914 and their burning of Jewish books during the Holocaust. He also highlights how libraries and archives were targeted during conflicts in both Bosnia and Iraq. These examples demonstrate that the loss of documents needs to be considered a casualty of war, especially when the documents’ destruction is linked to cul- tural genocide. Ovenden also tackles the ethics of curating private papers, using Franz Kafka and Philip Larkin as two examples. Self-censorship robs future generations of great research material, which is why silences in the record often speak just as loudly as preserved papers. Chapter 13 shifts to the digital world. Ovenden argues that large companies control cultural memory by privatizing the production and use of knowledge. Since they only offer storage to their users, he urges librarians and archivists to play a role in preserving digital content. The final two chapters of Burning the Books serve as a two-tiered conclusion. Here Oven- den lays out five reasons why we need to guard against both the deliberate and unintentional destruction of knowledge. Libraries and archives, he claims, are important for education, diversity of thought, open societies, fact checking, and cultural identities. In a nutshell, they are central to vibrant democracies. Hence, in his telling, librarians and archivists heroically manage collections, dodge bullets during times of war to save documents, and demonstrate “astonishing levels of commitment and courage in saving things from destruction” (218). Ovenden’s narrative sometimes verges on the hagiographic, but his reminder that “guard- ians of the truth” (219) do not always make frontpage news is important. As he stresses, the documents that information professionals preserve can be used to topple oppressive regimes and pass sentences in war crimes courts. A troubling aspect of Burning the Books is that knowledge, books, and memory institu- tions are largely only a part of the history of Western civilization. While Ovenden highlights the contributions of Muslim repositories and briefly acknowledges that the destruction of knowledge was a “routine aspect of colonialism and empire” (232), the Americas are largely absent from his study beyond his chapter on the Library of Congress. In recent decades, several scholars have expanded the history of the book to include works such as Mesoameri- can codices (“painted books”) and Andean quipus (knotted strings). From a world history perspective, the colonization of the Americas saw the loss of knowledge at alarming rates as European settlers destroyed many of these alternative forms of record keeping. Ovenden seeks to reach a wide audience with his book. He wants to inspire information professionals to soldier on in their work but not to become complacent. Beyond those within the fold, Ovenden also hopes to challenge a diverse reading public to contemplate the future of knowledge preservation. He joins other library directors at prestigious institutions who are working hard to combat the false idea that libraries and archives are irrelevant in the digital world.—Jason Dyck, University of Western Ontario Emma Annette Wilson. Digital Humanities for Librarians. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Lit- tlefield, 2020. 248p. Hardback, $115 (ISBN: 978-1-5381-1644-9). https://rowman.com/ ISBN/9781538116449/Digital-Humanities-for-Librarians Emma Annette Wilson has pulled together a very approachable and packed resource for as- piring Master of Library Science (MLS) students and those new to digital humanities (DH). The book is as easy to follow as it is informative, providing a balance between the practicality of various digital humanities methodologies, the development of those methodologies, and Book Reviews 613 approaches to engage with them. The author does, at times, assume that, while you may not have a traditional library degree from which to draw, you have a cursory understanding of MLS-specific disciplines (such as cataloging). Yet, there is still ample discussion of relevant ar- eas like metadata and insights into other types of librarianship activi- ties that will be useful to DH project leads who are new to academic librarianship. The book makes explicit the labor of project management, collabo- ration, and outreach and provides practical strategies for developing those skills as part of a team structure for DH projects. The author usefully addresses relevant training gaps in MLS degree programs. Wilson guides the reader through potential scenarios where one may insert their expertise and contributions into DH projects, an essential (and often a new) skill for librarians who are contributing equally as collaborators. Each chapter follows a template. First, the author offers a background of a particular digital humanities methodology. Next, she shares the basic needs and understanding required to engage with the methodology. And, finally, the book offers practical approaches for librarians new to DH to use each methodology while making potential inroads for greater understanding. This is a helpful and consistent format that will lend this book to be used as a reference, even for those who are more seasoned DH librarians like myself. While informative on topics such as Text-Encoding, Digital Mapping, and Digital Archives, this single-author textbook finds its limits as an introduction to DH. Contrary to what the text-focused topics would suggest, Digital Humanities goes beyond text-bound humanity. Other DH methodologies crop up as examples of DH concepts, but they do not receive the same treatment as text-based methods. Supplementing this textbook with other resources will be beneficial for the reader to gain a better understanding of other or newer forms of DH like data visualization, 3D modeling, or audiovisual DH projects. The author also fails to fully acknowledge radically innovative, subversive, and wild DH projects and methodologies. The movement and methodology of countermapping. The Remix culture made possible by public domain digital content and collections. The immersive and increasingly haptic scholarship offered by 3D, augmented, and virtual realities. The increased development of community archives and digital collections—by and for the people—which stretch the normative “public humanities” approach to be more inclusive while also swap- ping the roles of the “expert” in academia. These are huge components of what makes DH so interesting and rewarding. If you fall within this “rebel” camp of DHers, then you’ll have to find community and their cultural expressions elsewhere. In this textbook you will find a buttoned-up version of DH that lends itself more easily to institutionally supported approaches that are more commonly slotted into traditional librarianship. For the sake of introduction, Wilson presents a traditional picture of DH (the typical small, academic collaborative projects), and the projects and further readings are reflective of that. Indeed, much DH rests outside the realm of Eurocentric research and monographs (as you might imagine) and instead lives on social media feeds and hashtags (some of which are thankfully catalogued by amazing librarians!) or as blogs and as community documents (à la Nikki Stevens’ HASTAC Blog post that is a nonexhaustive list of DH projects1 or Black Digital Humanities Projects and Resources List2). These scholarly outlets fall outside of the 614 College & Research Libraries June 2021 scope of the book or perspective of the author. Thankfully, Wilson accompanies the textbook with a website listing the projects and people mentioned in the book so students can explore on their own. The website is a wonderful and welcome companion to the book and facilitates easier updating and inclusion, which aligns much better with the rapid development of DH. As it is, the website provides a explore-at-your-own-pace or pause-and-play approach to studying DH in addition to providing more dynamic content in the form of interviews with project col- laborators and direct links to the DH projects that are threaded throughout Digital Humanities for Librarians. The website is a clean compromise to the evolving nature of DH and presents the author with an opportunity to continually update and include additional voices that were excluded from the textbook. Even for the relative lack of project diversity or diversity of voices in this book, I found much to be useful and the prose engaging (a feat for a textbook!). The author is both open and candid about their experience as a new DH Librarian and is able to pose questions that many of us in the profession have asked in our beginnings. By providing these prompts, often as exercises or available resources at the end of each chapter, the author sets up a generation of DH Librarians with firmer footing than many of us had getting started—and if not firmer footing, then at least a sense of solidarity. I only wish this single-author tome had delivered a more inclusive, future-looking perspective of DH and gave me the fire to build my own DH project rather than simply giving me the grounding to support someone else’s.—Hannah Scates Kettler, Iowa State University Notes 1. https://www.hastac.org/blogs/nikkistevens/2018/01/19/list-dh-lists 2. Started by @CCP_org. | Short link: bit.ly/Black-DH-List Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin. Invisible Search and Online Search Engines: The Ubiquity of Search in Everyday Life. London, New York: Routledge, 2019. 160p. Hardcover, $160.00 (ISBN: 978- 1-138-32860-0). What is the most recent thing you searched for online? A recipe to try? A favorite brand of clothes on sale? Contact information for your dentist’s office? A movie to watch? Jutta Haider and Olof Sun- din, Professors of Information Studies at Lund University, use this prompt in focus group studies with people of different age groups and professions, as one illustration of their central thesis: search engines and online search are deeply embedded in our daily lives, often without our recognition. The responses represent the array of information that is sought online throughout a given day, indica- tive of the search-ification of everyday life, a key concept explored in this book. Platforms such as Google gather personal data on an immeasurable scale, learning every monetizable component of our lives to more efficiently sell us things while maintaining our atten- tion and driving our continued use. Search engines know so much about our interests, desires, and day-to-day existence. Shouldn’t we know more about them? https://twitter.com/CCP_org http://bit.ly/Black-DH-List