Small and rural academic libraries are no strangers to tight budgets and limited staffing. If anything, they are more accustomed to lean times than their colleagues at larger, more urban libraries; and yet, the acute challenges faced by these smaller, more remote institutions are not widely discussed--at least not specifically--in the library literature. With The Small and Rural Academic Library: Leveraging Resources and Overcoming Limitations, Kaetrena Davis Kendrick and Deborah Tritt seek to fill that gap in the literature, pulling together eleven chapters from librarians across the U.S. and Canada. These contributors come from all parts of the library, but have one feature in common: they all work at institutions serving communities of fewer than 3,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) students or fewer than 50,000 inhabitants. With fewer resources and smaller networks, these librarians are experts at making do with less.