[access-uk] Re: Priority Uploads to RNIB Overdrive
- From: "Richard Godfrey-McKay" <lists.godfrey-mckay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:44:21 -0000
David, That sounds sensible in many ways.
The main problem I have found with some sections of RNIB, is their
unwillingness to listen to the views of their beneificiaries. They might do
well to remember that if it weren't for people like us, we shouldn't need
people like them!
Don't forget, Mummy and Daddy know best!
Richard
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
David Griffith
Sent: 16 December 2014 17:35
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Priority Uploads to RNIB Overdrive
Well a suggested process could be.
1. Members would look for a book the want to read on the Overdrive
Catalogue.
2. If the book is not there the member then checks the main Talking Book
Catalogue
3. If the book is in the main catalogue the member sends an email to
overdrive@xxxxxxxxxxx requesting that the book be prioritised for upload. to
the Overdrive Catalogue
4. Thisemail takes the details of the book and is then added to a list
passed to the team transferring content from the main catalogue.
Obviously I do not work in the team and am unaware of logistics but have
managed many project over the years in various settings. It is unclear to me
why this is impossible to implement.
David Griffith
On 16 Dec 2014, at 16:16, Iain Lackie <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
How would you determine who should have priority?
Iain
-----Original Message----- From: David Griffith
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:28 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Priority Uploads to RNIB Overdrive
Whilst the issue of Daisy format is of interest it was not why I opened this
thread and we have have drifted away from any discussion of the issue I
raised.
The issue I am anxious to get views on is whether, given the past and
present difficulties in delivering the complete catalogue the Overdrive
service should respond to members request that a particular book that they
have been waiting for is prioritised for upload onto the Overdrive
Catalogue. I am talking about books readily available from the main Talking
Book catalogue but not on the Overdrive catalogue yet.
At this time the service is refusing, apparently, to respond to a request
that a book be prioritised for upload. This seems unreasonable to me as
apparently they are prioritising books for upload for book which potentially
have low or non existent demand.
I am sympathetic to the teething problems accompanying a new service but it
seems to me that the service is not helping itself by being unreasonably in
flexible.
David Griffith
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