[bksvol-discuss] Re: ReTextbooks
- From: Lisa Friendly <lisaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:38:27 -0700
Sorry, yes, that¹s exactly what I meant. For now we scan. We can get books
from the NIMAC and provide them to school districts as well but we can¹t put
them in the repository. That may change if we get this federal grant.
Thanks for clarifying,
Lisa
On 8/28/07 4:41 PM, "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello, Lisa,
>
> I'm puzzled by your comment, "Hopefully we won't be scanning too many
> textbooks." Did you mean that you hope to be able to get them digitally from
> the publisher?
>
> In the meantime, they would need to be scanned. Wouldn't school accounts want
> textbooks now?
>
> Lori
> hope to be able to get them in
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> From: Lisa Friendly <mailto:lisaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:04 PM
>>
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A bit of a complaint
>>
>>
>> The solution is to get them digitally from publishers and that is what we¹re
>> working on. Hopefully we won¹t be scanning too many textbooks.
>>
>> If you ever need one for a specific class, let us know. We can start by
>> trying to get it from the publisher.
>>
>> Lisa
>>
>>
>> On 8/28/07 1:47 PM, "Sharon" <mt281820@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Textbooks are difficult to scan when they have tables, sidebars, pictures,
>>> captions, weird column layouts, graphs, etc. Sharon
>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Monica Willyard
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:25 AM
>>>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A bit of a complaint
>>>>
>>>> I've been thinking about what many of you have said. I can see both
>>>> sides of this issue to a point. It leads me to some questions. Is it
>>>> the nature of textbooks that they will scan poorly? Dr. Cross seems to
>>>> do a very nice job with his, and some of those are over 1,000 pages. Is
>>>> a poorly scanned textbook actually useful to a student? I don't know the
>>>> answer to this since I scanned my own textbooks for college back in the
>>>> early 90s.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe I'm just in a clutter clearing mood this week. In the past, I was
>>>> more likely to take a scan rated good or fair if I could see the name of
>>>> the submitter and knew I could contact that person. Even now, I'd take
>>>> on a book with a warning that the book was a really tough scan, is a
>>>> requested textbook for someone, or that it's a person's first few scans.
>>>> Seeing a book uploaded by the infamous "a Bookshare volunteer" is sort of
>>>> like poison ivy to me. I don't touch it unless I have to. A book marked
>>>> as fair and that is anonymous as well is something I don't want to deal
>>>> with unless I have tons of free time and nothing else to scan or
>>>> validate. I used to spend weeks on such books, especially textbooks, and
>>>> it made me feel stressed and sort of crazy trying to fix it all because I
>>>> knew students would be using the books. I can't help but wonder if
>>>> anyone even read those books. By the time I was able to validate them
>>>> into legible shape, the person's class would have been over long ago.
>>>>
>>>> Monica Willyard
>>>>
>>>> Grandma Cindy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Cindy Ray/Lou,
>>>>>
>>>>> You make some good points. Re number three, though--if
>>>>> the person who needs the text submitted it, he/she has
>>>>> it. If it's someone who asked for a scan, he/she can
>>>>> validate it and use it at the same time. smile
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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