[bksvol-discuss] Re: Tips For Getting Your Book Wishes Filled
- From: estin <estin@xxxxxxx >
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- Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:56:21 -0500
We should add this to the website
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From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 13:39:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Tips For Getting Your Book Wishes
Filled
I think those tips are wonderful!! And clearly put!!
Monica, what was or is your career? You spot a need
for information or action and fill it concisely and
clearly. I'm not expressing what I mean very well, but
I hope you understand what I'm trying to say.
Cindy
--- Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, everyone. If you've got some requests for books
you'd love to read
that aren't in the Bookshare collection, I'd like to
share some tips
with you that could help you get your wishes filled.
Some will seem
obvious to you while others may not have even
crossed your mind. I hope
you'll find an idea here that helps you get some of
your book wishes filled.
1. When you post your request, make sure you give
both the title and the
author. Please make sure you spell the author's name
correctly since
it's what our volunteers use to search for books in
library catalogs or
on Amazon.
2. Get people interested in your book. Include a
description of the
book. Paste it from Amazon, describe it yourself, or
paste in a review
of the book from somewhere. In other words, get
someone motivated to
scan the book because it sounds good. Posting a
title and author is
nice, and yet it doesn't give our submitters much to
go on to see if
they'd like working on the book. At the end of the
day, volunteers are
people, and people are more willing to take action
when they like the idea.
3. Offer to edit/validate the book when it's
scanned. Doing this lets
submitters know that their work won't just sit
around in validation
limbo for ages. If you say you'll edit the book,
submitters will know
that you'll take care of stripping headers. I'd scan
a lot more wishes
if I wasn't responsible for doing header stripping
before submitting. As
it is, you kind of have to sell me on a book before
I'll scan it because
I know I'll have to do the headers. It's a necessary
chore with my own
books. I would dread doing it on a book I don't even
want to read.
4. If you can do so, offer to buy a used or new copy
of a book if
someone will scan it. While some volunteers are able
to get to a
library, many others aren't. I know that a lot of
submitters have bought
books that have been requested. If you can't afford
to buy the books,
please don't let that prevent you from asking for
books. Just be aware
that offering to buy books to be scanned is one way
to help you get
books into the collection.
5. Ok, I know this is really obvious, and yet I
don't see it done often.
When someone scans one of your book requests, say
"thank you" in in
private mail or on the list. Most of us want to know
if anyone reads the
books we scan. Since we can't see how many times a
book is downloaded,
we have no way of knowing if our book has been read
at all. A little
recognition can make the job of scanning book
requests rewarding for the
person doing the scan and will make it more likely
that the submitter
will work on book requests in the future.
I hope you find some of these ideas useful. I'm not
the ultimate
authority on volunteering. What do you think about
these tips? Do you
have other ideas to add to this list?
Monica Willyard
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