For library and information science practitioners, researchers, policy makers, and others, Hagar (library and information science, Dominican U.) brings together a group of information science and technology professionals from the US, Europe, and Indonesia for 10 chapters that address research and practice by those engaged in designing information infrastructures and systems to support crisis and emergency information management. They discuss how technology can enable resilience during war, the use of Twitter by law enforcement agencies as a crisis communication tool and in various crisis events, how technologies can support legacies of crisis events, and information and communication problems due to crises of isolation caused by SARS, H1N1, and Avian flu. They also consider the role of the company Ericsson in partnership with the UN in information and communication initiatives; how information environments can better support work activities, organization, and situation awareness; and how community radio and libraries can affect the spread of information during critical situations. Distributed in the US by Neal-Schuman. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)