[bksvol-discuss] Re: Best sellers that aren't making it into the collection
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:29:51 -0800 (PST)
I do remember Carrie posting recently, when someone
was going to scan a bestseller, a thanks for posting
and letting her know because there are so many she has
to scan that that's one less. I suggested in a recent
post that if any wants to, to let Carrie and everyone
else know as soon as possible so the money wouldn't be
spent to buy the book.
Grandma Cindy
--- groups Warford <groups_warford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi,
> Hopefully my last post on this subject until
> Bookshare comes out with a
> statement. Somehow I've convinced myself that I had
> seen in writing
> somewhere on the Bookshare site that all best
> sellers were to be done
> in-house and that volunteers should not work with
> the best sellers.
> However, I just went back to the site, and I can't
> find that reference. It
> does allude to them being done in-house, but the
> statement that I thought I
> had seen which strongly suggested volunteers not
> work with the best sellers
> isn't there. So, just for my own peace of mind:
> does any one else remember
> such a statement? Maybe I was just looking at the
> site too late at night!
>
> Thanks in advance for any clarification.
>
> Very Confused,
> Cindy 4
>
>
> To handle yourself, use your head.
> To handle others, use your heart.
> -- Author Unknown
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Monica Willyard
> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 6:18 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Best sellers that
> aren't making it into the
> collection
>
> Lora and Shannon, I respectfully would like to
> comment on something
> you've written on this subject because I don't think
> you have understood
> part of what has been said. No one is questioning
> our ability to scan
> our own books and get them approved. I don't think
> anyone wants to force
> Carrie to read a book she doesn't like either, and I
> know no one wants
> to paint Carrie as a villain here.
>
>
> Lora wrote:
> > When Power to the People came out, Carrie was
> volunteering. She'd already
> made it publicly known on this list that certain
> books weren't within her
> comfort level.
>
> This isn't supposed to be about Carrie's comfort
> level. It's about how
> Bookshare funds are being used and which New York
> Times bestsellers are
> being put into the collection with excellent
> quality. Carrie isn't the
> only person who scans at Bookshare, but she does
> control which books are
> being purchased. She has said so in several posts
> where she discusses
> which books she orders. Therefore, though I don't
> think that she has
> done this intentionally, her preferences do directly
> impact timely
> availability of certain bestsellers. Over the past
> year, she has chosen
> which books are ordered and has also included
> several books that did not
> make the bestseller list while leaving some
> bestsellers out of the
> purchase. While I think it is a waste of time to
> question every book
> that's purchased, some of us are becoming
> uncomfortable whith what
> appears to be a tendency to avoid certain subjects.
> If we do not discuss
> this and work it out while it is merely a concern,
> we are worried that
> this tendency may grow into something more
> pronounced over time. So we
> are talking about it in the hope that a system of
> checks and balances
> will be activated. I don't want to force Carrie to
> read a book she
> doesn't like. I do want timely and equal access to
> books if the American
> public chooses to put them on the New York Times
> bestseller list. I know
> we are able to scan the books we like. No one is
> questioning that. We
> are questioning the current bestseller process, and
> we are asking for
> clarification on how this process will work in the
> future.
>
> For now, several people have told Chris to scan the
> books he's asking
> about. He doesn't have the software to scan books.
> Due to Carrie's
> discomfort with the books, it doesn't look like
> buying them and mailing
> them to Bookshare would solve the problem. I'm
> willing to scan them but
> know I can't handle the charts in Power To The
> People very well. So if I
> get a copy of that book, there's no way it'll go
> into the collection as
> excellent quality.
>
> BTW, have any of you tried getting a bestseller
> from your library
> lately? I'm number 37 in line for getting Power To
> The People, and my
> library won't even let me put a hold on the Coulter
> book because they
> have 100 people in the queue. Yikes! Since our
> library allows 2 weeks
> per person with books like these, it could be as
> long as a year and a
> half before I get Power To The People. I hope they
> have multiple copies
> and that people read it really fast.
>
> Monica Willyard
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