Dear colleagues, I received an email questioning approval of a book notice from a list member. Honestly, I assumed folks would want to know about new books, but there was a concern regarding commercial use of the list. Brent tells me that we have indeed restricted some purely commercial announcements for books in the past. I guess the fear has been that mass emails of lists of books might appear, but I believe that we can reasonably limit such messages. Let's try to stick to announcing new scholarship, rather than posting "for sale" items. It might also make sense for the person posting to give contact information and request that interested parties contact them directly, thus preserving the bandwidth of the list. Perhaps it also would be useful to put a header in the subject line such as "New Book." All thoughts welcome. Gregg Gregg D. Kimball Director, Education and Outreach Library of Virginia 804-692-3722 [log in to unmask] To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html