[bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated information

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> 
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Books with outdated information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that may have outdated information, and I've asked Carrie if she can find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years and/or have outdated information because they need the space for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validating books that may have facts and information that is no longer
valid.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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