[bksvol-discuss] Re: bibliographies

I have seen some of the changes and the steady increases in the numbers
of books in each category.  The statistics might be interesting, though.

I haven't compiled any bibliographies, but if they might be put on the
site I will pay attention to possibilities.  Right now a couple topics I
can think of just from what I notice when browsing are career resources
of all kinds, and we sure do have a collection of books about Japan.
You might get most of the books you were looking for if you used Japan
as your search criteria, but I doubt any search for books on the topic
of career development or getting a job would be as successful, because
there is such variety in the titles.

I too would be interested in bibliographies that would categorize books
by the authors writing period or specific styles that might be used for
literature classes.

Lists that are for specific periods in history or specific geographical
areas would also be good.

Our science category is a bit broad to contain all the stuff in it, too.
There are many psychology books that could be grouped not only by
psychology, but also many categories within that.  A list of all books
on child development, and for psychological disorders, for just two
examples.  Of course the categorizing could be endless, so I agree that
some categorizing should be with the category system already in place,
only with a few more categories, and other grouping would be best done
only by providing lists or bibliographies.  That would alleviate some of
the problems with the current search options.


Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity

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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: bibliographies


> Hi E.,
>
> I think your idea for the bibliographies is a wonderful one. Do people
> have similar theme lists they're working with that they'd like to
> contribute? Definitely something we should consider formalizing and
> putting on the website. I'll be sure to copy this email out and put a
> star on it that says "hey, new person, follow up on this, because it's
> cool!"
>
> Sarah, I can give you a category count but I can't give you a more
> specific topic count. Would you find it interesting if I showed you
some
> numbers about how the category counts have changed since we first
> launched?
>
> Best,
> Marissa
>
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> Oosterwijck
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>
> I love your idea!
>
> Just yesterday  or the day before I was talking about how interesting
it
> would be if someone did some work to find out what topics bookshare
has
> a lot of books about, and then check to see how well a person could do
> using bookshare to do some hypothetical research assignments.  For
some
> reason the word "bibliographies" didn't pop in to my mind, but that is
> exactly what would be useful.
>
> Not that I would wish to do anything but a strictly hypothetical
> research project. :-)  Well, maybe the research itself could be real,
> but the paper that is supposed to result would never be produced. LOL
>
> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
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> From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 2:05 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 43 books today
>
>
> > Here is an idea for bookshare.  We can have a place where a list of
> > bibliographies are stored.  For instance, there can be a list of
books
> on
> > the holocust, and lists for other topics or themes.  I have begun to
> put
> > together a few tentative lists, one on non-western religion, for
> instance,
> > and another on history themes.  Ones which immediately spring to
mind
> are
> > books about the Civil War, the American Revolution and such.  These
> lists
> > might be valuable to students.  The one about the Civil War could
> include
> > histories, plus fiction about the war.
> >
> > The lists of nominees and winners of various prizes could also be
kept
> in
> > the bibliography section of bookshare.  We might be able to get
grants
> to
> > create books about particular subjects.  By the way, what about the
> idea of
> > scanning a few books on grant writing for those of us inclined to
> learn the
> > art.
> >
> > E.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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