[bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing Holds
- From: "Lisa Gorden-Cushman" <crysania@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:36:03 -0700
That's a really good point. I don't know if someone could have specified,
but I would have liked to know that the book that I released was homophobic
and offensive. The other book that I released had too many scanning and
formatting errors. I could have told that by the number of people who took
a crack at it. But I was intrigued by the content, so I went ahead and
tried.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy Rosenthal
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 6:26 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing Holds
Yes, but it would be good to have a place to put the reason we're releasing
the book; someone else may not to want to proof the book for the samereason
would like to know that about the book before taking it. If someone
releases a book because there are a lot of formatting problems another
person may not want to take the book for the same reason On the other hand
someone else might be happy to take it. If a book was released because the
language or violence or explicit sex was not to the proofer's taste, another
person seeing the book valuable for checkout might want to know that and
maybe either take it or not.
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Lisa Gorden-Cushman
<crysania@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think people have lots of different reasons for releasing books. And I
think people understand that. For example, I released a book because I
found out it was homophobic. Other people release books because they do not
have time. People release books for all sorts of reasons.
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy Rosenthal
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 5:26 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Madeleine Linares
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing Holds
With the limit of 5 books to be held in our piles for proofing and all the
books some of us are going to be working on it's not going to be easy to
check out books form the checkout list. Proofing a complete book takes time
and so usually only one or two can be checked in within a month (at least
by me, and that depends on the size of the books and how much needs to be
done to it before the final spell-check and pagination check; I can release
a couple that I suspect no one will take, but if he scanner sees the book on
the checkout list he/she may wonder why I released it. I haven't seen a
place to explain my reasons for releasing a book, though there used to be
one. Hopefully scanners will do what I see one has done whch is to say Hold
for sighted person (add who can get the print book) or put in the comments
section that the book has problems and needs to be proofed by such a person.
Cindy
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Madeleine Linares <Madeleinel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi everyone,
It is that time already! On Monday (9/17) I will be removing the holds from
books that have been sitting in the queue for more than one month! I will
not remove the books, just the words "HOLD FOR [name]" so that anyone can
grab them.
If you have books with holds for you, please make sure to check them out
over the weekend.
Thanks,
Madeleine Linares
Volunteer Coordinator
Bookshare, a Benetech Initiative
650-644-3459
madeleinel@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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