I think three months is plenty long to hold a book. For me this is about putting books in the collection. There are plenty of books to proofread; however, I worked at Iowa Dept. for the Blind coordinating proofreading for a while and proofreading educational materials; I saw some stuff that had been around for a really long time, and the book I just proofread had been around for a very long time; so holds just slow down the movement of books longer. Don't know anything else about the other places, like que, which I can't remember how to spell. Cindy Lou On Feb 18, 2011, at 7:08 AM, Melissa Smith wrote: > I think, in normal circumstances, 3 months is plenty long for a hold for. > Personally, when I have a book I'm holding for someone, I contact the proofer > to find out when they're ready for me to put it up. I put the book up when > they are ready, and they download it within a day or so. However, I can see > that life may get in the way at times, and then, contacting Carrie to extend > the hold would be a nice option. > Though, in most cases 3 months should be plenty of time. > > Melissa Smith > > On 2/17/2011 8:58 PM, Jamie Prater wrote: >> Hi, I'm not sure what the answer is. I know books need to move along and not >> clog up the list. I've seen the new volunteer materials clog up and linger >> on all lists, the checkout list, the in process list, and the awaiting >> approval list. If they get to that point, they need to go on ahead and >> download the materials and do something with them. I've seen lots of stuff >> stay in the approval queue and the in process queue, longer than they used >> to stay. I know people get backlogged, so is three months a reasonable >> answer, and if not, what is? I can't throw rocks at anybody since a couple >> of months ago, I let some things linger during a turbulent period of my life >> when life was too complicated to work on anything, and one book in >> particular almost stayed too long and I was glad it didn't overstay its >> welcome on the checkout list and I'm glad I didn't miss it as it was part of >> a series. I hope people who make up the huge influx of volunteers really >> intend on moving through and volunteering and not letting materials stay in >> one spot and never following through. If everybody does, the possibilities >> will be limitless for all scanners and proofers and readers alike. I like >> the idea of books for new volunteers to practice on and build their >> confidence levels up before tackling real books. My first >> validation/proofing book was one I had read at least twice and was very >> familiar with and it had very little to correct, so I just eventually read >> manuals and learned by doing and part of the road was a bit bumpy and I made >> people mad who thought I wasn't willing to read the manual, but I was, I >> just had a job and a lot of other stuff going on. I'm sure we can come up >> with a workable solution and/or possible policy change. > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of > available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.