[bksvol-discuss] Re: Collection Development - What Bookshare Volunteers Do
- From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 11:04:01 -0800
Thanks Dan
Keep the suggestions coming folks
On 1/6/11 9:45 AM, "Dan Beaver" <dbeaver888@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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+Publi
>shers
>
>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
>Benetech FellowN²ryš²¶uj™¶²vºz²y²®¶Âºn‰Êzž²yŠ¢j¶½irj¦…–Š•¶¹r
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