Bookshelf 2011

摘要

Since our retirement from the College of William & Mary in May 2011, ourprocess for handling reviews has changed. In the past, publishers routinelysent review copies to our office in Virginia and, once we found appropriatereviewers, the books were mailed to them by a student assistant. But nowwe have neither an office in the United States nor an assistant to handle themailings. So we learn about new titles via journals, newspapers, the Internet,and acquisitions lists supplied by KITLV in Leiden. Then, once we’ve founda willing reviewer, we ask the publisher to send the book to that persondirectly. This means that your faithful book review editors do not see most ofthe books that are reviewed in the journal. One year into this new procedure,it seems to be working smoothly.