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466. Unfortunately this appeared too late to be used in the preparation of this paper. Its examples are drawn from the fields of popular music and Southern (USA) literature but its conclusions are of general application. Dilevko and his colleagues argue that “scholarly book reviews are an important part of the scholarly communication process” and should be required reading for librarians not just for the purposes of collection building but also as a source of “a significant amount of intellectual capital” that enables them better to meet the needs and expectations of faculty and scholars.
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