[bksvol-discuss] Re: Are You Guys Getting Your "About to Expire" Notices?

  • From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:38:07 -0800

Hi Evan,

        I did get one notice of a book due to expire.  Will post here if
anything else expires without my being notified.

Mayrie

 

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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Are You Guys Getting Your "About to Expire"
Notices?

Just wondering whether anyone else has had a book expire, or has renewed a
book that was due to expire less than two days from the time you renewed it.
I submitted a book for Lissi to validate and she did not get any notice that
the book was due to expire in two days. Nor, did she gget a notification
that the book actually had expired, which it did before she renewed it.
 
Are you all getting your notices? I've written to Pavi about this. 
 
The book that expired was apparently picked up by someone else and, I think,
rejected. I cannot tell for sure because the letter from Bookshare is a bit
ambiguous, saying that the book "has not been added" to the collection. But
it doesn't say what DID happen to it, whether it was kicked back to the list
of books to be proofread, or sent to the rejection list. I checked my list
of books that have been rejected and it wasn't there, and I did not find it
on the list of books to be proofread. Needless to say, I have written to
Pavi about this as well.
 
I am sorry to say that, given the lack of acknowledgement of books sent up
to the Admin Queue, the lack of a quality analysis on the proofreading
page,, the lack of expiration notices, the ambiguity of my recent letter
from Bookshare, communication between Bookshare to its volunteers seems to
be a lower priority than it used to be.
 
Yes, I know that Pavi said that they would work on the acknowledgement
issue, but there seems to be a whole range of examples that indicate a
lowering of interest in clear feedback to the volunteers.
 
I did not participate in the recent thread concerning not liking the new
site, but I am afraid that I am beginning to think that in addition to some
issues I have with the site, I am liking the new Bookshare less overall.
They have built the site "from the ground up" as I believe they said, when
perhaps they should have taken what worked well from the old site and added
to it. Now they have to spend all this time fixing things that worked just
fine before.
 
Evan
 

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