[bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated information
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 01:48:06 -0700 (PDT)
P.S.
I wasn't so much suggesting that the books be discarded, though I guess it did
sound that way from my comparisons with non-online libraries, as I was
suggesting that scanners consider the value of the books they think of
scanning. As I said, and as Roger or someone pointed out with his reference to
Lenin's book, some books written in a different time and place certainly are
useful and valuable, in the case of some other books time might be better spent
on a different book or history.
And now I'll shut up. smile
Cindy
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--- On Fri, 8/8/08, Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated information
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 1:20 AM
> I guess what bothered me about those books--not histories or
> other kinds of nonfiction books where it really doesn't
> matter when it was written--is that someone reading it would
> have a completely wrong impression of what the situation is
> today. Reading an autobiography or essay by someone living
> and writing at the time is different. I understand your
> points of view as scholars and people interested in knowing
> what others living at other periods of time thought, but if,
> for example, a high school or middle school student was
> assigned to write a paper on South Africa or the prison
> system and chose one of those two books as his main source,
> he wouldn't get a very good grade or knowledge.
>
> Yes, Carrie--I thought of censorship, which I don't
> like either, but...
>
> Anyway, I bow to everyone's opinions. smile
>
> Cindy
>
> ***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE
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> http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm
>
> A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT
> http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html
> http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
>
> Jake's site for useful links:
> http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html
>
>
> --- On Thu, 8/7/08, Gary Petraccaro
> <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated
> information
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 10:15 PM
> > Books don't just tell us what we think today, but
> what
> > we believed
> > yesterday. They're windows into different times
> and
> > cultures.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:02 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Books with outdated
> information
> >
> >
> > >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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> > >
> >
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> > > http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
> > >
> >
> http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm
> > >
> > > A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS
> AVAILABLE
> > AT
> > >
> >
> http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html
> > > http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
> > >
> > > Jake's site for useful links:
> > http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html
> > >
> > >
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