[bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated information
- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 08:20:03 EDT
Actually, I don't think that libraries discard books with outdated
information in the sense that you are talking about. They would ordinarily
discard
outdated reference works such as lists of current automobile prices or
telephone
directories, that is, books that it is very unlikely that anyone would want
to access after the information is outdated. Other than that, the discarding
process targets books that are greatly damaged, multiple copies of formerly
popular titles and books that have not been accessed in a very long time. In a
message dated 8/8/2008 1:48:17 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
popularplace@xxxxxxxxx writes:
P.S.
I wasn't so much suggesting that the books be discarded, though I guess it
did sound that way from my comparisons with non-online libraries, as I was
suggesting that scanners consider the value of the books they think of
scanning.
As I said, and as Roger or someone pointed out with his reference to Lenin's
book, some books written in a different time and place certainly are useful
and valuable, in the case of some other books time might be better spent on a
different book or history.
And now I'll shut up. smile
Cindy
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--- On Fri, 8/8/08, Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with outdated information
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 1:20 AM
> 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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>
> A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT
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> http://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
> > >
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> > >
> >
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> > > 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:
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> > >
> > >
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