Thanks for all the great wisdom, Judy! I have forwarded the information to
Jennifer and told Amanda about the problem when she called about doing a blog
story about Doug and his volunteer time with Bookshare. I had noted the
differences on the metadata page, but did not realize all the hiccups
introduced.
Hope everyone is staying safe and has a good weekend!
Valerie
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On Mar 19, 2020, at 12:55 AM, Judy <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Valerie,
Because I've been running into this with some stuff submitted for me too, I
looked at the book history to see if it was similar. aHA! It is!
It's being caused by a programming change in the metadata page that we fill
in when we submit a book that we scan or one that we've proofread.
If you check the history, you'll see that Booklady actually did put a hold
for you on it. However, she put it in parentheses on the title line before
the title name and put the series name and number in the title line as well
in parentheses.
I've learned from recent experience myself that Bookshare's site now gets
confused if you put anything in parentheses in the title field on the
metadata page when you are submitting or checking in a book.
It will also get really confused if you put a colon anywhere in the title
field.
When a title is entered with parentheses or with a colon, the site may strip
stuff out of the title field that is really in there when it displays it on
the volunteer checkout, books in process or approval queue pages. YUCK!
You might want to tell Booklady about this for future submissions.
Here's what I've found works:
Put the title of the book in the title field. Just the title, and nothing
else.
If it has a subtitle (including anything that comes after a colon) put that
in the subtitle field.
Put the series name in the series title field.
Put the series number in the series number field. Be careful to not put a #
sign in there, just the actual number, or you'll get weird stuff showing up
in the title.
Also, if you run into this, the "edition" field on the metadata page we fill
in is only used in instances like textbooks, where a textbook is an updated
second edition, for example. It's not used except for that.
Hope that helps! smile
Judy s.
