Openers: Virginia Libraries — Past, Present, Future

This issue contains the last Virginia Reviews column contributed solely by the staff of the Library of Virginia, and it is well worth taking some time to reflect on how LVA’s reviewers and editors have added value to this publication over most of the past two decades. In addition to being a source of scholarly reviews for acquisitions librarians who read Virginia Libraries, the corpus of carefully considered appraisals of books on Virginia history and culture has made our past issues at the Virginia Tech Digital Library and Archives more valuable to the internet searchers who now access our back pages at a rate that increases each year.