[bksvol-discuss] Re: New 3 hold maximum in check out queue
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:20:00 -0700 (PDT)
Goos point. Thanks.
--- On Tue, 7/24/12, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: New 3 hold maximum in check out queue
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 8:33 PM
> Unfortunately, that just doesn't work
> for the reasons Doug and Valerie both laid out. There
> are many times when there are more than five books at a time
> that people have asked me to work on that suddenly are ready
> for proofing at once, so I can't check them all out. Some or
> maybe several have to sit and wait.
>
> I am thrilled that we have an influx of volunteers--that's
> terrific. But the new policy is solving the wrong
> problem.
>
> Besides, if someone gave me a gnarly book to proofread when
> I was a new volunteer, by taking a hold off of one that was
> being held for an experienced volunteer just to make sure I
> had something to do, I would have been so overwhelmed that I
> would have run screaming out of here, never come back and
> ended up never having the chance to learn how to become an
> experienced volunteer.
>
> Judy s.
> On 7/24/2012 10:19 PM, Cindy wrote:
> > One solution is for people like me and others who have
> posted is for us to check out the books that are on
> Hold for us and then keep renewing them while we're working
> on them. That way the other books will be available
> for other volunteers. Just please, please, do not limit the
> number of times we can renew or change the number of books
> we can have in our proofing piles.
> >
> >
>
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