But you know, when you think about it, only 103 books in the queue is pretty
awesome! Remember how crazy it was last year, when there were so many?!
<Smile> I agree that it would be great if some of us were able to do more,
but really, my hat's off to the Bookshare staff (Gustavo in particular) for
all the hard work. Take care!
Jana
But it doesn't help to scan and/or validate more books if they don't get approved and into the collection. Perhaps the 50 books added the other day were after I counted the 153 in the queue, but that still leaves 103. I haven't checked today. I wish that rule about having to use employees sisn't exist, or that they could hire some of us for $1 a year. smile
Cindy
--- Jake Brownell <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi again Elizabeth, Yes, getting more people involved is a big goal for 2006 I think at least. That not only means more volunteers, but more subscribing members.
More goals will come down as the year progresses, but BookShare I think is finding that we need more folks willing to volunteer so that we can keep our numbers increasing at a steady pace, but the quality improving as well.
There is a fine line between numbers and quality. If a book is in overall great shape, the thought is to not bother attempting to improve it that last little bit, but to improve a book that drastically needs it. This will keep the numbers going up at a small sacrifice of quality.
Schools in particular want to see that we can provide high quality books. Having BookShare introduced to students is probably a good thing as they will then be familiar with it for the rest of their lives. The catch of course is to make a good impression.
Okay, I'm done with this long post *grin* just thought I'd throw some thoughts out there.
Jake
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> Sounds like a huge job. I wonder if some spin off
possibilities exist
> here. For instance, it may be good to think about
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> bookshare outreaching in a more systematic form.
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> just the beginnings of an idea rather than a fully
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