[bksvol-discuss] Re: bibliographies
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 07:47:17 -0500
I wonder how long it will take to find a replacement for Marissa annd what
they will do in the meantime..
Sue S.
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From: "robert tweedy" <rtweedy2@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 6:25 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: bibliographies
That reminds me of a discussion about a year or two back about bookshare
giving us an idea of what customers like the most but probably impossible.
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From: <vining@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 2:35 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: bibliographies
> I'd like to see that too. And I wish there was some way of seeing how many
> times particular books are downloaded.
>
> Joanie
>
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> From: "Marissa Mika" <Marissa.M@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 4:09 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: bibliographies
>
>
> Hi E.,
>
> I think your idea for the bibliographies is a wonderful one. Do people
> have similar theme lists they're working with that they'd like to
> contribute? Definitely something we should consider formalizing and
> putting on the website. I'll be sure to copy this email out and put a
> star on it that says "hey, new person, follow up on this, because it's
> cool!"
>
> Sarah, I can give you a category count but I can't give you a more
> specific topic count. Would you find it interesting if I showed you some
> numbers about how the category counts have changed since we first
> launched?
>
> Best,
> Marissa
>
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> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sarah Van
> Oosterwijck
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 3:49 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 43 books today
>
> I love your idea!
>
> Just yesterday or the day before I was talking about how interesting it
> would be if someone did some work to find out what topics bookshare has
> a lot of books about, and then check to see how well a person could do
> using bookshare to do some hypothetical research assignments. For some
> reason the word "bibliographies" didn't pop in to my mind, but that is
> exactly what would be useful.
>
> Not that I would wish to do anything but a strictly hypothetical
> research project. :-) Well, maybe the research itself could be real,
> but the paper that is supposed to result would never be produced. LOL
>
> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
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> From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 2:05 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted 43 books today
>
>
>> Here is an idea for bookshare. We can have a place where a list of
>> bibliographies are stored. For instance, there can be a list of books
> on
>> the holocust, and lists for other topics or themes. I have begun to
> put
>> together a few tentative lists, one on non-western religion, for
> instance,
>> and another on history themes. Ones which immediately spring to mind
> are
>> books about the Civil War, the American Revolution and such. These
> lists
>> might be valuable to students. The one about the Civil War could
> include
>> histories, plus fiction about the war.
>>
>> The lists of nominees and winners of various prizes could also be kept
> in
>> the bibliography section of bookshare. We might be able to get grants
> to
>> create books about particular subjects. By the way, what about the
> idea of
>> scanning a few books on grant writing for those of us inclined to
> learn the
>> art.
>>
>> E.
>>
>>
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