Only 400 miles, smile. I know for me the biggest book I would like to see is Speaking for Spot, and I was going to purchase it, but if you can, well, smile. 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: Bookshare Vol Group Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 1:14 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: what volunteers may submit to Bookshare Hi gang, In response to your question about the wish list books, yes, one of these days (probably in a month or two), we will start buying and processing the wish list books. There are several types of books that we will leave on the wish list, since the grant does not cover them. One type of book we will ignore are the romance, erotica, and adult content books. The grant is for educational books, and most romances aren't educational, at least not in the sense that government means :-). The other type of book we will ignore are BSO books. The grant says we must put 100,000 NEW books, which excludes replacements. That being said, I assume most people know that in the past 4-6 months, we have instituted a new way of handling book quality issues, so we are addressing the problem of quality, but we're not using grant money to do so. My recommendation to everyone is to spend a week or two thinking about books that you would like to see in the collection, formulate a list, check the books on your list against the collection, the books in the checkout queue, the books being processed, and Cindy's being scanned list, and then send the non-duplicated titles to Cindy. (Please don't everyone do this tonight. If she gets inundated by wish list requests, she'll shoot me.) Carrie PS, If anyone is worried about me being shot, I would just like to say that Cindy lives 400 miles away from me, and she's not a violent person. I was joking! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: volunteer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 5:01:14 PM Subject: Re: what volunteers may submit to Bookshare Elizabeth, you're asking some great questions. I don't know if Amy knows about the wish list of books. It certainly would give Amy some ideas about what our readers are already requesting. There are tons of educational books being requested on there. I'm going to CC this to Pavi and ask her to pass this idea along to Amy. I think that's the right channel for presenting the idea. If not, maybe she'll let us know what to do in the future. For anyone interested in it, the wish list can be found at http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/wish_list/wish_list.htm Cindy maintains it and has been doing so for the past 18 months or so. She updates it regularly when someone posts a request. Monica Willyard "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of E. Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 7:04 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: what volunteers may submit to bookshare That makes sense. I simply did not understand before. Good explanation. Do you think any funds will be spent on wish list books? Elizabeth At 06:40 PM 2/12/2009, you wrote: >Hi Elizabeth. The librarian is helping Bookshare decide what to buy and >scan. She's not limiting what volunteers choose to submit or work on. >Bookshare has money to spend on purchasing and scanning books that comply >with the education grant. It makes sense that a librarian would help >Bookshare figure out where the collection needs improvement as they're >choosing books. Carrie has worked hard on this in the past years, and I'm >glad she's got some help now. The two ladies will work together to turn >Bookshare into a more well-rounded, timely, and educationally supportive >library. There is still plenty of room for volunteers to add books as they >see fit. > >Monica Willyard >"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker > >-----Original Message----- >From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of E. >Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:28 PM >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] what volunteers may submit to bookshare > >Did I miss something? Are there new criteria determining what kinds >of books volunteers may submit to bookshare? >I did hear the books themselves will now be arranged in more useful >categories. >Elizabeth > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. 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