[bksvol-discuss] Re: Best sellers that aren't making it into the collection
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:29:37 -0500
It took me 4 months to get a book which was Not on the bestseller list. <grin>
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From: Monica Willyard
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 6:17 PM
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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