[bksvol-discuss] Re: Collection Development - What Bookshare Volunteers Do
- From: "Dan Beaver" <dbeaver888@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 12:45:50 -0500
Scott,
I'd like to suggest Deseret Book out of Salt Lake City Utah as one of these
publishers. They have lots of books that many people would like to read but
very few are in our coolection.
thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Rains
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 11:11 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Collection Development - What Bookshare Volunteers
Do
Bookshare is unique. It has always been a library built by its patrons. In
the most concrete sense what each of you do is both the heavy lifting of
constructing this library and the architecting of the vision of a place
where print disabled readers engage with literature and the world.
Last year the massive influx of PQ books - and the displacement of
volunteer-produced books - bore uncomfortable resemblance to the deluge
unfolding in Queensland. We were inundated and the usual landmarks were hard
to locate. We put some new navigation points in place:
A list of publishers to expect PQ books from and others less likely to wash
away a volunteer's work
Special projects like the Series Captains for filling in potholes
A revision on the online manual to help us chart our way
What we are preserving in all that is the core reason this community
exists - to effectively develop a collection of accessible digital books for
Bookshare members and to nudge the book industry to take that market
seriously.
The lists we compare ourselves to such as the BBC list or the "Most
Important Books" list are one way of measuring the Bookshare collection. So
is the new "Bookshare Volunteers' Most Enjoyable Books" list - besides, it
is fun.
I'd like to propose a challenge to you as a volunteer community. It is also
an implied challenge to the book industry. Let's take a publisher, look at
their catalog in light of our own, and generate a list of what we want added
to our collection from them. I'm open to suggestions for names of publishers
both PQ partners and from our "Safe to Scan" List. The Volunteer Guidelines
on Publishers list is here:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/3.2+B.+Volunteer+Guidelines+on+Publishers
Start with suggested publishers. Then we can move on to specific books or
book categories.
Whose books should we focus on in this experiment - one PQ partner and one
safe favorite.
Scott Rains
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