[bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated information
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 01:08:12 -0700 (PDT)
Interesting. O.K. I give up. smile
Cindy
--- On Thu, 8/7/08, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated information
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 7:28 PM
> As a person who is interested in history I find considerable
> value in works
> written in the historical period about which one is
> investigating. The
> information is not outdated. It is only antiquated and as
> such it still has much
> relevance to the history buff. In a message dated 8/7/2008
> 7:02:49 P.M. Pacific
> Daylight Time, popularplace@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> 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 that may have outdated information, and I've asked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 outdated information because they need the space for newer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 have facts and information that is no longer valid.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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