[bksvol-discuss] Re: 2011 Planning - Growing the Bookshare Collection Strategically
- From: Pamela Hoffard <crosssttch@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:33:02 -0800 (PST)
Scott,
I would love to help! I can use the Google docs.
Thanks,
Pam
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From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, January 28, 2011 1:10:14 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] 2011 Planning - Growing the Bookshare Collection
Strategically
Volunteers,
Since the start of 2011 you have seen a number of short projects involving
lists
in Excel, Google docs, or tab-delimited files. These resulted in strategic
additions to the collection. Like earlier projects where gaps in series were
targeted these projects target gaps in themes and often start the formation of
Special Collections.
I wanted to tell you some of what you have accomplished since these projects
involve many people working simultaneously on isolated pieces of the process
and
the end result is slower to appear than when doing scanning and proofing. I
also
want to announce new projects to those who are interested.
You have created your own unique list of Bookshare Volunteer "Best Reads."
You have prepared the list of BBC and Norwegian Book Club's list of most
important books
You prepared a list of 200 books that have been recommended to graduating
seniors to read the summer before college. (Right, I thought it was only my
university that wanted us to read 200 books in one summer.)
You prepared a list of nearly 300 books that have been recognized as classical
literature of the world.
You have begun the list of every book written by a Nobel Literary Prize author.
In each case we now have the foundations for listing a Special Collection using
the URLs of the books in the Bookshare collection. Dozens of books are now on
order to fill in what we were lacking. What you have done also provides new
arguments for the value of Bookshare when staff approaches publishers, parents,
universities, elementary schools, and funders. Thank you!
In this next set of projects you are directly helping Carrie Karnos fulfill a
long-delayed desire to measure our collection against various book awards. Once
again the process involves recording what we already have in Excellent or PQ
quality and researching who publishes what we are missing.
We need volunteers to research 2,000 books. These are the top books in four
categories as determined by AwardAnnals.com. The Categories are Young Adult,
Nonfiction, History, and Biography.
We learned last time that there is no single format that works for all
volunteers so we will be flexible in a way that allows the largest number
possible to contribute. Using the Google doc format is preferable for all those
it is accessible to because it gives realtime feedback on just what remains to
be done.
Write to me if you want to tackle part of this project. Be sure to let me know
which format you need and specify a number of books you want to take on if you
are not using the Google doc format.
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow
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