[bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated information
- From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 09:04:12 -0600
Hi, Cindy;,
I think it's too difficult to create any kind of hard and fast rule for
books with old information. Sometimes, such books might be needed. For
instance, if I were writing a book on South African history, past to
present, I might want the perspective of an author who wrote about that
country in the 1980's, or even earlier.
In other instances, there are sometimes just no good current resources.
Some of the books on different games and building strategies for playing
them are more than twenty or thirty years old. And some of the books on
topics such as playing the piano are classics that have been around for
decades.
On the other hand, a book on autism written in the 1970's would likely
contain misleading information, while its more modern counterpart is
probably what we'd want.
I think that we just have to leave it to common sense.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 7:43 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated information
Cindy You make some very good points. However, if the copyright information
is available for anyone who cares (either in the book or on the web) then
the reader can decide whether or not to read the book.
Just my thoughts on the matter, even if my thoughts are a little outdated.
Bob
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From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:02 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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Books with outdated information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that may have outdated information, and I've asked Carrie if she can find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years and/or have outdated information because they need the space for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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