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Cindy,
Depending upon the subject, most readers know enough to check copyright or publication dates and know to judge the accuracy or lack thereof in the books they read.We cannot be responsible for the truth of what we read, only for the effort one makes to judge.
I think the only thing the we can be responsible for is that we do the best job we can in delivering a published work to Bookshare members in a form a close to the printed form as possible. It is up to our readers if they choose to believe that there are thousands of Wizards in London fighting each other to save themselves and us from evil. Sighted or blind, able bodied or differently abled, we are all of us responsible for what we choose to bellieve and why.
Amy
omsm
It if be now, 'tis not to come,
If it be not to come, it will be now,
If it be now now, Yet it will come.
The readiness is all.
Wm. Shakespeare
-------------- Original message from Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx: --------------
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated information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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