[bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated information
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 01:07:09 -0700 (PDT)
I do understand your points, and they did occur to me before I wrote, but it
also occurs to me that histories cover that sort of thing--in the case of the
two books I mentioned, histories of South Africa and histories of prisons and
prison reform.
Cindy
> Cindy:
>
> While your points are well taken, the other side of this
> coin is that
> although outdated by current standards, these books may
> provide
> valuable historical information about earlier time periods.
> That sort
> of info could be a gold mine for some1 doing research. Just
> a thought,
> of course.
>
> On 8/7/08, Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I don't know what the bookshare policy is about
> including nonfiction books
> > that may have outdated information, and I've asked
> Carrie if she can find
> > out. Libraries, school and public, periodically go
> through their collections
> > and pull books that haven't circulated for a
> certain number of years and/or
> > have outdated information because they need the space
> for newer books. That
> > isn't the case, of course, for an electronic
> library like bookshare, but I
> > seriously question the value of time spent scanning
> and validating books
> > that may have facts and information that is no longer
> valid. I bring this up
> > because two books added today to the collection, Move
> Your Shadow-South
> > Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld and Doing
> Time: A Look at Crime
> > and Prisons by Phyllis Elperin Clark, Robert Lehrman
> I wonder about. I
> > haven't read them, but looking at their copyright
> dates (and I think maybe
> > that of the former might be incorrect--without looking
> at the
> > copyright page, the information I've found
> indicates that the book was
> > copyrighted in 1985, not 1995) my impression is that
> circumstances in South
> > Africa are quite different now than 10 or 20 years
> ago, and that there have
> > also been changes in the prison system in the last 20
> years.
> >
> > My suggestion would be that submitters and validators
> consider whether it's
> > worth their time and energy to scan and/or validate
> books that a print
> > library probably would discard. JMO
> >
> > Cindy
> >
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