Jennifer's title is not Manager of Collections as originally published, but Manager of Alternative Media and, according to the job description, has been hired to coordinate the improvement of the collection, not the day to day addition to the collection. It's my understanding, and this agrees with what Jake said, her job is more of a technical position than a member/volunteer relations position. From what I remember from the job description, though, volunteers are definitely not being short-changed by her hiring. Jennifer will be the one who works with Engineering and the volunteering community to improve the Bookshare system. It's my understanding, though, that the volunteering community won't communicate directly with her, but through the advisory group that Janice mentioned, with the exception of the in-house volunteers which she will manage. It's also my understanding that Jennifer will be the one to notify the volunteering community of technical upgrades and explain how they will affect members and volunteers. It's still a bit early to tell, but I suspect Jennifer will be the one in the future that we will go to for answers to technical questions related to volunteering. While I would expect Jennifer to have the capability to approve books because she should have access to the collection in order to supervise upgrades related to approvals, I wouldn't expect her to participate in that task. Bookshare is in the process, however, of hiring a Customer Support Manager which will work more directly with volunteers. According to the job description, that person will "also serve as the voice and champion/advocate of the Bookshare.org remote volunteers within the Bookshare.org organization." I would expect that this person will participate in book approvals since Marissa did, but that is only a guess, and, if you recall, approving books was only a minor part of Marissa's job. She didn't do it on a day-to-day basis, and it was my impression that she mainly made corrections to the database when members/volunteers notified her of an error related to a book's title or author or to its quality classification. Considering that we are getting two staff members to replace Marissa, one to work with volunteers on a day-to-day basis and one to work with Engineering to convey members'/volunteers' needs and wishes, we are definitely not getting short-changed. Also, the hiring of Jennifer and the Customer Support Manager will free up Gustavo and Janice so they can focus entirely on the jobs they were doing before Marissa left. In theory, this will give Gustavo more time to do approvals. HTH Gerald -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of siss52 Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 11:03 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: admin queue i'M NOT mONICA BUT i THOUGHT jENNIFER WAS HIRED TO BE IN CHARGE OF THE COLLECTION. aRE WE BEING SHORT-CHANGED YET AGAIN?? sUE s. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:35 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: admin queue > Hi Monica, > I'm sure Jeniffer will have the power to approve books, but whether that > is a task given to her will be up to most likely Janice and Jim. I thihnk > though that Jeniffer was hired to do other important things. These include > working with developers and designers of BookShare to upgrade the quality of > service in several ways. This isn't to say that book approvals aren't > important, but we need the foundation of the site to be improved since its > initial launch in 2002. Yes, the system has seen changes, but with the > growth of BookShare, the system will need to change even more to support all > of the new things we hope to see in the future. > > Jake > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Monica" <plumlipstick@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 2:49 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: admin queue > > > > Out of curiosity... Is Gustavo the only person on the staff who can > > approve books? I'm wondering about that since I thought maybe approval > > might also fall under Jennifer's domain once she's settled. 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