[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validaters, It's Your Turn
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:07:38 -0600
Yes, thank you, Monica. You are taking a lot of money from your own budget
to help bookshare.org in this way.
Sue S.
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From: "Allison Hilliker" <bookshare_girl@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:07 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validaters, It's Your Turn
Great idea, Monica, I love it! Thanks for including us validators.
Allison
----- Original Message -----
From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bookshare Volunteers" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Bookshare
Discuss" <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:32 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Validaters, It's Your Turn
> Fellow Booksharians, it's time to honor and celebrate our validaters. By
> now, I'm sure you've heard about Project Treasure Chest, a project to
> encourage submitters to submit ten excellent scans. Now it's time to
> show some love and respect for our unsung heroes, our validaters. Books
> can't get approved without these hard-working men and women, so it is my
> honor and pleasure to announce... Submitters have open their Treasure
> Chests, now it's time for Project Gemstone!
>
> Here's how it works. Each person who validates 10 books that go into the
> collection with an excellent rating between now and April 30, 2008, will
> be recognized on a special Project Gemstone web page and will be entered
> into a drawing for one of six 20-dollar Amazon gift certificates. On top
> of that, you'll have earned $25 in credit from Bookshare toward your
> next year's subscription. The drawing will occur on Monday, June 2,
> 2008. There are a couple of guidelines put in place to make sure this is
> fair to everyone. Everyone here is a person of integrity, and these are
> designed to give everybody a fair shot. Please read on.
>
> 1. Validate any book you like from the step 1 page, making sure it is in
> excellent condition when you upload it. .
> 2. Please email me a list of the ten books you have validated at
> rhyami@xxxxxxxxx by April 30, 2008.
> 3. Please include no more than 2 books of under 50 pages in your 10
> qualifying validations. It's not fair for someone to validate ten
> picture books while someone else is struggling through a monster of a
> book like War And Peace.
> 4. Please validate books from several submitters with no more than 3
> "hold for" books in your list of ten validations.
>
> I'm excited about seeing our validaters get the recognition they
> deserve. You are all gems, shining your lights quietly as you volunteer.
> Now it's time that the world sees your lights and knows who you are. The
> books you work on now will be treasure for many people in the future.
> Like gemstones, their value will live on through time, giving pleasure
> to each person who possesses them.
>
> Monica Willyard
>
>
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