[bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?
- From: "My Nickels Worth" <lavendar@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:14:42 -0500
Ah, ok, then the present system makes sense. Thanks for the clariification,
E.
Cait
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?
You can renew your book over and over again At present, you can renew
indefinitely. Allowing folks to have a longer period between renewals
may simply mean a book stays stuck rather than getting validated.
Getting thigs moving on step 1 was the reason the five book limit was
instituted. I suspect the time between renewals was kept short to
promote the same movement process.
E.
At 02:16 PM 11/11/2008, you wrote:
>This is good to keep in mind, E.!
>
>I hope that we can check out books for validation for a longer period
>of time in the future, rather then the present system.
>
>Caitlyn
>
>
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>
>The more picky you are the better you will be at validating. It is fine
>if it takes a long long time. I sometimes take a month on a book. We
>all have lives outside of bookshare.
>
>Remembering that you read the book once and make it perfect for many
>others to read it helps.
>
>This seems particularly true with the children's books you mention.
>Many folks in that age group may be learning braille and developing an
>interest in reading. You truly serve them by making books directed at
>young people so perfect.
>
>E.
>
>At 04:44 PM 11/10/2008, you wrote:
> >I'm a new voluteer and the first thing I would have liked to know was
> >how much time it takes to validate a book. I couldn't decide if I was
> >too picky because it would take up to 4 hours to do Hanna Montana!
> >I've gotten a little faster now. Especially when the manual only says
> >to make sure all the pages are there.
> >
> >I think one thing this discussion has shown me is you can't be too
> >picky (or is that obsessive?)
> >
> >When I became a new voluteer I asked for a mentor. Maybe as new
> >people sign up we could have a list of people on a greeting committee
> >to help them through the first few books. I know it doesn't take long
> >to catch on.
> >
> >The other Cindy R.
> >
> >
> >
> >----------
> >
> >From: lavendar@xxxxxxxxx
> >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?
> >Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:38:15 -0500
> >
> >
> >Actually, Monica, you make a good point about reading the entire book
> >through. the manual doesn't say that you must do this as a
> >validater. I must say, that the times that I did just even skim
> >through the book, and sort of "zoned out" while "reading", I missed
> >some critical things..so..yeah, reading each and every book you
> >validate all the way through is a good place to start!
> >
> >Caitlyn
> >
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> >[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Monica
> >Willyard
> >Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 12:13 PM
> >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?
> >
> >Caitlyn, I love your idea. (smile) That's a great way to help improve
> >the quality of our books. I think we have a lot of highly-skilled
> >validaters around here who could lend a hand. I will just ask for one
> >thing to be included, and it seems almost unnecessarily obvious. It's
> >the one thing that a person can do to build a great foundation.
> >Please, please read the book all the way through. You can do a lot
> >with a spellchecker and removing headers, but reading the book itself
> >is the way you can catch scannos like the word car for cat or die for
> >the. It's also how you can be certain that all pages are present
> >since scanners don't always handle page numbers well. There are
> >literally thousands of books in the collection that were scanned
> >pretty well but that needed someone to read through and remove
> >scannos. I know Bookshare doesn't require people to read a book and
> >that the validation process was different five years ago. Where we
> >are now in 2008 is a new landscape for volunteers. Since validaters
> >get the same amount of credit submitters do, I think it's fair for
> >validaters to read the book just as submitters are required to scan
> >the whole book.
> >
> >
> >
> >Ok, I've said my piece. I'm going back to my scanner now. (smile) Now
> >where did I put my coffee cup?
> >
> >
> >
> >Monica Willyard
> >
> >
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