[bksvol-discuss] Re: my thoughts on the hold for issue

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.
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