Ah, Marissa. Here you bring up a subject that's been much discussed. I think everyone has come to his/her own conclusions as to what they'll do. Some are going to do the basics;others of us are going to take the time to be very thorough. If all scanners checked their books carefully before submitting, validating would take less time, but quite a few scanners just scan and submit. Just checking for the basics doesn't catch a lot of errors, and many people have downloaded books from the collectiion that turn out to be missing pages or have pages so garbled they're unreadable. Then they have to be rescanned and re-submitted or are lost from the collection. Cindy But by "balance" in this case, I meant finding the > equilibrium between > the amount of time you spend validating and the > quality of your final > validated product. I think Jesse posted the > standards pretty recently on > this list. If you want me to re-post them I can, > just say the word. > > All the best, > Marissa > > -----Original Message----- > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Shelley L. > Rhodes > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:18 AM > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Your new list monitor > and a rallying call > for validations > > Hello Mericia. What do you mean by Balance, does > this mean gaps in the > collection or what? smile. > > And welcome aboard. > > > Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden > juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. > Graduate Advisory Council > www.guidedogs.com > > The vision must be followed by the venture. It is > not enough to > stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. > > -- Vance Havner > > > > > _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com