[bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?
- From: "My Nickels Worth" <lavendar@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:01:43 -0500
Those are good ideas, Cindy. I've been a volunteer since last February or
March, so although I feel really new, I suppose I'm somewhere in the
middle(smile). I don't think you can be too picky, no. One thing I do like
is the comments when a book I've validated doesn't make it to the accepted
queue. It's good to know why, and what to fix to make it good to go. Same
thing for rejections.
Caitlyn
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy Reece
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 4:44 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?
I'm a new voluteer and the first thing I would have liked to know was how
much time it takes to validate a book. I couldn't decide if I was too picky
because it would take up to 4 hours to do Hanna Montana! I've gotten a
little faster now. Especially when the manual only says to make sure all the
pages are there.
I think one thing this discussion has shown me is you can't be too picky (or
is that obsessive?)
When I became a new voluteer I asked for a mentor. Maybe as new people sign
up we could have a list of people on a greeting committee to help them
through the first few books. I know it doesn't take long to catch on.
The other Cindy R.
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From: lavendar@xxxxxxxxx
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:38:15 -0500
Actually, Monica, you make a good point about reading the entire book
through. the manual doesn't say that you must do this as a validater. I
must say, that the times that I did just even skim through the book, and
sort of "zoned out" while "reading", I missed some critical
things..so..yeah, reading each and every book you validate all the way
through is a good place to start!
Caitlyn
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Monica Willyard
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 12:13 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?
Caitlyn, I love your idea. (smile) That's a great way to help improve the
quality of our books. I think we have a lot of highly-skilled validaters
around here who could lend a hand. I will just ask for one thing to be
included, and it seems almost unnecessarily obvious. It's the one thing that
a person can do to build a great foundation. Please, please read the book
all the way through. You can do a lot with a spellchecker and removing
headers, but reading the book itself is the way you can catch scannos like
the word car for cat or die for the. It's also how you can be certain that
all pages are present since scanners don't always handle page numbers well.
There are literally thousands of books in the collection that were scanned
pretty well but that needed someone to read through and remove scannos. I
know Bookshare doesn't require people to read a book and that the validation
process was different five years ago. Where we are now in 2008 is a new
landscape for volunteers. Since validaters get the same amount of credit
submitters do, I think it's fair for validaters to read the book just as
submitters are required to scan the whole book.
Ok, I've said my piece. I'm going back to my scanner now. (smile) Now where
did I put my coffee cup?
Monica Willyard
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