[bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated information
- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 08:11:39 EDT
I would think that anyone who was interested in such books or doing research
on the questions they cover, including high school students, would pay
attention to the copyright date and be aware of the historical context. The
very
same applies to users of print books. In a message dated 8/8/2008 1:20:27 A.M.
Pacific Daylight Time, popularplace@xxxxxxxxx writes:
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
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--- 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 Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated information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 Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Books with outdated information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that may have outdated information, and I've asked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years and/or have outdated information because they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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> >
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> >
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> >
> >
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