As a matter of fact, as of last night -- that was the last time I was browsing the checkout list -- there was at least one being held for you. "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony
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To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 9:15 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Books with HOLDs
Because people can download books to work on and keep renewing them, there sems to me to be no reason for books with holds on them to linger on the checkout list. However, enlarging the number of books were allowed to have from 5 would be helpful. I'll check and see if there are any holds for me. I've told the people for whom I've promised to proof books to put them up with comments thhat I've promised to do them, and that they might need, but they don't have holds.and I'll take them if no one else does or that I'll let them know when I'm ready to download them.Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned list available at sites belowWish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+ListBooks Being Scanned List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List--- On Wed, 12/23/09, Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Books with HOLDs To: "Bookshare Vol Group" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 3:30 PM Hi all, Since we've had loads of complaints about books with HOLDs in their titles languishing in the checkout queue for weeks, months and years, the Bookshare Collection Development department has instituted a new policy. If a book has been on the checkout list for more than 2 weeks with a HOLD in its title, I will remove the HOLD to allow other people to proof the book. On January 1st, I will remove the HOLDs on all books that were submitted prior to December 1st. This is to give people time to finish their current books and start on their new ones that have HOLDs on them. On January 15th, I'll remove the HOLDs on any books that were submitted during December, and then the 2-week rule will go into effect. I know that some people will love this, and other people will hate it. Let's try it for a while, and see how it goes. If the vast majority of people hate this, then we'll revisit it. By the way, having a time limit on HOLD books in the checkout queue was one of the top suggestions in the volunteer survey that Pavi sent out. She is working on an email to be sent to everyone that details the results of the survey. The survey provided a huge amount of really valuable feedback, so thanks very much to everyone who participated in it! Happy holidays! CarrieTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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