Marissa SAID last week they were having a meeting this week and she would ask about in-house vols helping with validations.. How about it, Marissa? Sue S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:24 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: More Awards for Bookshare? I guess I'm somewhere in the middle on this discussion. Because of the heavy validation backlog, I'd like it a lot if some of the in house volunteers would be interested, if they could pitch in on the validation side, since it clearly generally involves a whole lot more time than what was initially envisioned. On the other hand, I do like the idea of special projects, like Pulitzers or Newberries etc, rather than just pumping out the latest book of interest this month, which nobody will remember a year from now. It seems to me that many best sellers and book of the month selections will take care of themselves, because they are of immediate popular interest, so they are more likely to be picked up by an existing member and scanned. Of course, for the big long block busters of mega-interest, like Harry Potter or the Clinton autobiography, the in house volunteers did do those. I also appreciate the in house volunteers taking a shot at more difficult titles, like cookbooks, which are really difficult to do well if you can't see the original copy. I wonder if it would be worth it to see if in house volunteers might be interested also in validating some of the more difficult titles, such as the nonfictions that contain notes, maps and the like, which can really benefit from somebody following with the printed copy. Mary