[bksvol-discuss] Re: On Rejecting, Releasing, and Retaining

  • From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:38:03 -0500

Pavi,

These are great ideas!  Now if you could only put them in a newsletter to 
send out to all volunteers, that would be great!  So many volunteers are not 
on this list!!

Regards,

Sue S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Pavi Mehta
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Carrie Karnos
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:36 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] On Rejecting, Releasing, and Retaining




As some of you have mentioned, when volunteers release a book it would be 
ideal to have a comments field where you can include reasons for the release 
that would be useful to the future validator.

I will put in a request for this feature to be included in the new site, but 
in the interim it would be helpful if the following procedures could be 
followed:



1.      In the event that you have started validating a title but are unable 
to complete it due to an issue with the scan itself: Reject the title with a 
note to Carrie in the comments section. Mention the issue(s) at hand and 
make a request that the book be returned with your edits retained. Carrie 
will send the edited file to the download list, and the comments regarding 
the issues will be visible to all logged in volunteers on the title history 
page.

2.      In the event that you have started validating a title and are unable 
to complete it due to personal reasons (lack of time etc): Instead of 
releasing the title reject it with a request to Carrie in the comments 
section that your edits be retained. Carrie will send the edited file to the 
download list. And someone else can pick it up where you left off. (Please 
note that if you choose simply to release the book instead of rejecting it, 
your edits will not be retained).



Just so you know -- in practice Carrie typically retains edits on rejected 
titles unless there is an obvious reason not to (but it won't hurt to make 
an explicit request if you want your edits retained).



I hope this will help save time for some of you and as usual if there is 
anything unclear about the above please let me know.



All good things,



Pavi Mehta

Volunteer Coordinator, Bookshare



Benetech

480 S. California Ave., Suite 201

Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA

Phone:  +1 650 644-3459



pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx



www.benetech.org



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