Books in the Mail

"Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet," by Christine L. Borgman. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. 9780262026192 $35 336 p.

The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and collaborative resources. Although much attention has been paid to the new technologies making this possible, from digitized books to sensor networks, it is the underlying social and policy changes that will have the most lasting effect on the scholarly enterprise.