bookworm@athena.mit.edu (Linda Martinez) (05/30/90)
As a librarian at MIT, I would love to see some sort of computer book reviews posted. It is extremely difficult to select in the computer area, you can try to anticipate new trends, try to identify the important authors, or the significant universities and labs. Any forum for book reviews would be most appreciated. I would be most interested in journal reviews, the cost of journals is going sky high, this is an area where attention must be given.
siegman@sierra.STANFORD.EDU (siegman) (06/01/90)
An excellent idea, but is the traffic on this group so heavy we really need a separate group. How about just agreeing on a standard header, e.g., "Book review: xxx by yyy", and leaving the discussion in comp.edu -- at least until traffic gets so heavy that a change becomes really necessary.