[bksvol-discuss] Re: 2011 Planning - Growing the Bookshare Collection Strategically
- From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 08:59:00 -0800
It is on its way in Excel in a separate email! I will have you working on the
same category as Chela but further down the list.
Scott
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Strategically
scott, I would love to assist. I would need the product in excell and if
it's for looking up purposes I can do around 70.
On 28/01/11 14:10, Scott Rains wrote:
> Volunteers,
>
> Since the start of 2011 you have seen a number of short projects involving
> lists in Excel, Google docs, or tab-delimited files. These resulted in
> strategic additions to the collection. Like earlier projects where gaps in
> series were targeted these projects target gaps in themes and often start
> the formation of Special Collections.
>
> I wanted to tell you some of what you have accomplished since these projects
> involve many people working simultaneously on isolated pieces of the process
> and the end result is slower to appear than when doing scanning and proofing.
> I also want to announce new projects to those who are interested.
>
> You have created your own unique list of Bookshare Volunteer "Best Reads."
> You have prepared the list of BBC and Norwegian Book Club's list of most
> important books
> You prepared a list of 200 books that have been recommended to graduating
> seniors to read the summer before college. (Right, I thought it was only my
> university that wanted us to read 200 books in one summer.)
> You prepared a list of nearly 300 books that have been recognized as
> classical literature of the world.
> You have begun the list of every book written by a Nobel Literary Prize
> author.
>
> In each case we now have the foundations for listing a Special Collection
> using the URLs of the books in the Bookshare collection. Dozens of books are
> now on order to fill in what we were lacking. What you have done also
> provides new arguments for the value of Bookshare when staff approaches
> publishers, parents, universities, elementary schools, and funders. Thank you!
>
> In this next set of projects you are directly helping Carrie Karnos fulfill a
> long-delayed desire to measure our collection against various book awards.
> Once again the process involves recording what we already have in Excellent
> or PQ quality and researching who publishes what we are missing.
>
> We need volunteers to research 2,000 books. These are the top books in four
> categories as determined by AwardAnnals.com. The Categories are Young Adult,
> Nonfiction, History, and Biography.
>
> We learned last time that there is no single format that works for all
> volunteers so we will be flexible in a way that allows the largest number
> possible to contribute. Using the Google doc format is preferable for all
> those it is accessible to because it gives realtime feedback on just what
> remains to be done.
>
> Write to me if you want to tackle part of this project. Be sure to let me
> know which format you need and specify a number of books you want to take on
> if you are not using the Google doc format.
>
> Scott Rains
> Benetech Fellow
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