Thanks, Cindy, for managing these lists for so long.
Your work definitely does not go unappreciated.
Christina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Melissa Smith"<mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx>
To:<bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 10:02 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Announcement: Changes to Wish List and Books
Being Scanned List
Thanks to Cindy for all of her work on these lists.
I noticed that wishes will remain on the list for 3 months. What will
happen to them after that? Will they go to the outsourcers, or will
there be nothing done with them?
Thanks,
Melissa Smith
On 1/31/2011 8:02 AM, Scott Rains wrote:
Volunteers,
"Grandma" Cindy has been the dynamo behind the Wish List and Books Being
Scanned List. Recently she has done a total review
of the Wish List and its archives. More than a "one category hero" she is also
someone who takes on tough proofreading
jobs.
In 2011 one of my top priorities is to rally the resources of Benetech to help
veteran volunteers like Cindy excel.
Starting today the two lists Cindy has become synonymous with will be managed
in-house at Bookshare - and Cindy will be
free to tackle the backlog of proofing on her personal wish list! A big Thank
You to Cindy from all of us.
Earlier I announced that Collection Development would be thinning out the Wish
List at the end of January. The first part
of that project has begun with 61 non-fiction books being removed from the Wish
List and passed over to our vendors to
complete. Attached is that list in both Word and Excel. A second similar-sized
group of fiction books will follow shortly.
Again, thank you Cindy for the hours you spend making sure we had an exhaustive
list to work from for this task.
Over the next several months more automation will be used to maintain the Wish
List and Books Being Scanned List. For
example, it is now necessary to send an email to one of the following to
addresses to get on the list. No one will be
scanning this discussion list and automatically adding books as Cindy has done.
At the same time, it is still a good idea
to mention here which books you are adding to the lists and maybe inspire
someone to take it to the next step.
Submit your notices to:
booksbeingscanned@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
wishlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
The Wish List format will be briefer and items will remain on it for 3 months.
To start we will post the lists every two
weeks to the Bookshare Volunteer Discussion List and update the wiki once
during February. As we work put the inevitable
glitches in the new process posting and updates will become more frequent.
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow
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