[bksvol-discuss] Re: Most Enjoyable Books - 2011 Planning
- From: "Sue Stevens" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 22:40:42 -0600
My still more ancient computer echoes this sentiment. (smile)
Sue S.
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From: "Bob W" <rwiley45@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 6:01 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Most Enjoyable Books - 2011 Planning
Many thanks Denise for all your work.
Thanks Scott for forwarding this to us. And my ancient computer thanks you
for the multiple formats.
Bob
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From: "Scott Rains" <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 11:55 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Most Enjoyable Books - 2011 Planning
Bookshare Volunteers,
I want to publicly recognize Denise Thompson for her work managing the
Bookshare Volunteers' Most Enjoyable Books List project. The research has
been done on which we have in the collection and it is attached in Excel,
tab-delimited text, and .PDF. You will see that there are some gaps.
Would everyone who submitted their favorites read through the list and
see if one of those we could not locate is yours and we perhaps have the
title or author spelled incorrectly.
These missing books in the list are now open for scanners to claim and
get started on. If a proofer knows they want to team up on a title please
announce that to the list also. Those books that remain orphaned at the
end of next week will be turned over to staff in-house to work on.
As a thank you to Denise a donor is adding the latest book in the Corina
Chapman series by Kerry Greenwood "Forbidden Fruit."
http://tinyurl.com/2ccouxf
A side note about 2011:
We have all had to adjust to the new ways that books come into Bookshare.
Many books that scanners would have eagerly taken up now come straight
from publishers. You may have noticed that even in-house we have moved to
using the same book for training all new proofers because of the
difficulty of finding appropriate level 2 books in quantity.
At the same time, volunteer-added books have been the central force in
Bookshare's collection development strategy. We work to amplify your
voice alongside the influence of PQ additions by calling for lists of
what you have read, what publishers and genres you prefer, and even
re-engineering the search function on the site so you can find Fair and
Good quality books to rescan because many are books added by volunteers.
So you will see me asking for this sort of input. This is part of what I
mean when I say that my mandate in 2011 is to help you move to whatever
is the next level of satisfaction and quality in your work.
But as the year goes on you will increasingly need to generate strategies
among yourselves for shaping the collection and sustaining this
community - much like the constant sparking that goes on across the list
when someone uncovers a new series or a new author and a scan/proofing
partnership comes into being. In coming weeks I will be helping those who
have already contacted me about forging such partnerships and projects.
Write to me if you have a collection of books that you want help scanning
into the collection, a subject area that you want to research for books
we don't yet have, or other creative ideas that I can help you launch
early in the year before I am pulled into other aspects of managing the
volunteer program. We are going to experiment together with some new ways
of getting things done.
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow
scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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