One of the important lessons I was taught, when I started writing term papers, in middle school, was... to check the validity of the source.
My teachers gave us guidelines on what books were acceptable, what websites were acceptable, and we went over in fine detail how to determine a good source.
I had these lessons in middle school, high school, and college. Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT And Guinevere: Golden Lady Guide Dog guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs for the Blind Alumni Association www.guidedogs.com----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:20 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated information
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 COLLECTION)IS AVAILABLE AThttp://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/ http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htmA LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.htmlhttp://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 Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated information To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 10:15 PM Books don't just tell us what we think today, but what we believed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 > > ***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS > AVAILABLE AT > http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm > 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 > > > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list > of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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