书评是图书馆采购图书的指南。中美图书馆界组织和利用书评的程度极为悬殊。美国图书馆员在选择图书时很大程度地依赖于书评,但已开始从数据库中寻找有关图书的信息。中国图书馆没有组织适合本行业需要的书评活动,亦无由图书馆界编制的书评杂志、书评索引。随着出版业的繁荣和图书品种的激增,征订目录的弊端日趋明显,强化书评在图书选购中的作用已变得十分重要。 Book reviews are a guide to library purchases. The degree of book reviews organized and utilized by the Chinese and American library communities is extremely disproportionate. American librarians rely heavily on book reviews when choosing books, but have started to look for information about books in the database. China Library did not organize book reviews for the needs of the industry activities, nor by the library community book reviews magazines, book reviews index. With the prosperity of the publishing industry and the proliferation of book varieties, the drawbacks of subscription catalogs have become increasingly obvious. It has become very important to strengthen the role of book reviews in the purchase of books.