[bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing books you're validating

Hi E,
    While there are possibly some issues that are indeed more important than
validation time, if we do not attempt to maintain a quick turn around
through the system, then BookShare loses part of its advantage.
    The initial message suggested a longer validation time and in response
to that we have moved on to max times of validating. I would support such a
max time provided that in rare cases for practical purposes the time can be
extended. I think though the difficulty lies in finding a way that will
A. not be abused
B. not be granted lightly
and C. that will not take away from already scarce staff resources.

I too, have seen books that were renewed and renewed to only end up not
being validated. I think that those validators who poor over every word of a
book that is already in great shape is great because the scan will be that
much better, however, I urge them to remember that there are far lesser
quality books that are making their way into the collection that could
really use that type of work.

One reason I do not do much validating is that without access to Kurzweil
1000's Rank Spelling it is difficult without reading a majority of a book to
really tell the shape it is in. Hopefully this will change in the future and
I'll do more than just scan, but I still have a couple hundred titles on my
list to scan, so I'll still be busy for a while yet. *grin*

Jake


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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing books you're validating


> I agree.  Sometimes I quickly validate a book.  Sometimes it takes longer
> than a week.  There are worse issues to be addressed than keeping a book
> out for a few weeks to validate.
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