[bksvol-discuss] Re: gaps in the collection

This looks like a really good source for technical books.

Thanks Jim
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Homme, James 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 5:50 AM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: gaps in the collection


  Hi,

  I don't know if this would be helpful, but Safari has HTML of some of the 
Dummies books. Maybe they would allow us to have some of their books. They are 
associated with O'reilly. They have books from a lot of other publishers too. 
They have a lot of technical books, but also some business, finance, and 
self-help. They also have a site that they worked on to make more accessible 
for their government customers, so I believe them to be open to talking to 
Bookshare. They may end up saying that the subscription price is low enough to 
allow someone to read their books on line though. I am fortunate to be able to 
use a corporate account, but if I weren't able to do that, I'd very much want 
their books on Bookshare, especially since technical books go out of date so 
quickly. See http://access.search.safaribooksonline.com/

   

  Jim 

   

  From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shelley L. Rhodes
  Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 10:05 PM
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: gaps in the collection

   

  I would also like to see books on spinning, weaving, fiber crafts, crochet, 
leather work,  dyeing, mosaic craft, and other arts and crafts, is something I 
am expected to know for my job and i have been scrounging to find what I can 
from my library.

   

  Also coin collecting.  Flags and World cultures and study of world countries.

   

   

  Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT
  And Guinevere: Golden Lady Guide Dog
  guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx
  Guide Dogs for the Blind 
  Alumni Association
  www.guidedogs.com

   

  The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of 
their act as violence;
   rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness.
   The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. 
-Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944) 

    ----- Original Message ----- 

    From: Carrie Karnos 

    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

    Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 6:42 PM

    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: gaps in the collection

     

    Usually (but not always!) the text explains what the diagrams and charts 
are illustrating in home improvement and other nonfiction books. Since some 
people learn better by reading text, some by listening, and some by looking at 
diagrams, these books try to cover all the bases. I chose books that had lots 
of text, and ignored the books with lots of pictures. Since we're paying the 
outsourcers, I'm that they'll do a good job with the books. If they don't, 
we'll send the books back until they do do a good job.
    One of our outsourcers gives us a good rate on difficult books, so we're 
trying to send them lots of hard-to-proofread books, like the Complete Idiots 
and Dummies series, and cookbooks, and such. They're getting all of the how-to 
and home improvement books.
    Carrie

     


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    From: Robert Riddle <captinlogic@xxxxxxxxx>
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 1:31:10 PM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: gaps in the collection

    Hi Monica,
    Unbeknownst to anyone, because the books haven't been put into the 
collection yet,
    I bought 20 books at the Home Depot a month ago. These books are on 
plumbing, wiring,
    drywall, trimwork, barbecues, kitchen remodeling, brick and tile, 
landscaping, backyards
    for children, how houses are built, etc, etc.  I also got some books on 
cutting electricity
    bills and creating 'greener' houses.
    And thanks to a donation of 600+ books a couple of months ago, there are 
maybe 16
    books coming on perennials, annuals, orchids, greenhouses, house plants, 
African
    violets, etc.
    And a week ago, I bought a dozen books on films, and some TV series (Lost, 
Firefly,
    Star Trek).
    And I bought a book on the history of American birding. Never occurred to 
me that
    someone would write a book about that, but they did, so I got it.
    I'll see if I can find books on defensive driving, car maintenance, 
beauty/fashion,
    scrapbooking, home decorating, and flower arranging.
    Our star Googler is looking for histories of the various countries around 
the world
    from non-American, non-European people, per another person's request. And 
she's looking
    for pro-communism writers too, per yet another person's request. Since she 
likes
    international politics, she's having a good time with these last two 
requests.
    Carrie

    How are you going to handle all the diagrams and such that appear in those 
type of home improvement books? It's my experience that such how-to guides 
don't, as a rule, OCR very well.

     



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