[bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish Lists and Being Scanned List Update!
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 00:53:20 -0800
I'll check the wish list with the collection and the awaiting approval
list and will let you know if a book on the w.l. is already in the
collection or is awaiting approval. I have time to do that.
Cindy
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Madeleine Linares
<Madeleinel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hi everyone,
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> We've been taking some time in-house to reevaluate our current Wish Lists
> and Being Scanned List.
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> The Wish Lists will now be updated weekly, but the two lists, the fiction
> and nonfiction lists, will be combined into one. We will also start sorting
> by number of requests so that people can see which books have been
> requested by more than one person (so, which are in high demand) if and
> when that happens.
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> The Wish List will continue to be updated on the wiki page, and I'll send
> out the word doc to this list.
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> Please note that we remove books that have been on the list for more than
> two months, whether or not they have been added to the collection. We do
> this for a few reasons. First of all, we want the Wish List to be a
> manageable document that people can get through. Second, we want to make
> sure someone still wants the book. People may lose interest, find the book
> elsewhere, or change their mind for any number of reasons. Rather than
> have a running list of books people have requested once at some point, we'd
> like to try to make sure the Wish List is current. We do realize that this
> isn't perfect, and it may mean that people will have to request their book
> multiple times. Hopefully, though, when someone continues to request their
> book a scanner will continue to see it on the Wish List, take the hint, and
> scan it. We've already been doing this but I realized that we may not have
> communicated it clearly or explained our reasoning.
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> Please check the Bookshare website *BEFORE* scanning a Wish List book! At
> this time we don't have any way to check whether or not a book on the Wish
> List has been added to the collection. If a Wish List book that you've
> scanned or proofread has been checked in for approval, please email me
> directly. Additionally, if you see that a book from the Wish List is in the
> collection, please let me know. I do want to get a volunteer to help me
> with this since it would mean a weekly manual search of the Wish List
> against the collection, which I sadly don't have the bandwidth for myself.
> If anyone is interested, please contact me off list.
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> Another note about the Wish List: please do not use the Wish List email.
> Please ONLY use the online form to fill out your Wish List book's
> information. This also goes for school book requests. We want to move away
> from the email addresses because the online forms ensure we get all of the
> necessary information and can make sure to process your request as quickly
> and efficiently as possible so we will no longer be processing any requests
> sent to those email addresses.
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> We have decided to stop the Being Scanned List. The volume of books we
> process in-house and through our outsourcers is such that in order for the
> Being Scanned List to be useful, we would have to publish it daily. We
> don't have the bandwidth to do this. Additionally, since it was not a
> mandatory activity only a small number of scanners actually used it.
>
> As a compromise, we're proposing that any volunteer who submits a book
> in the same month as one that we've had will have his or her submission
> evaluated against the other copy. If their version is better, we'll keep
> that one. If not, we'll keep the other one. Publisher submissions will
> still replace volunteer submissions. We don't have control over that,
> unfortunately.
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> Another suggestion is to avoid the New York Times Best Sellers list
> because we add those in-house. If a book is on the list, chances are we
> bought it the second it was added and we're already almost ready to get it
> into the collection. However, if you think a book *might* hit the NYT
> Best Sellers list in three weeks, get it done in two weeks, let me know,
> and I'll bump it to the top of the approval queue.
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> I encourage you all to continue to share books you're planning to scan on
> this discussion list, but for our purposes, we're no longer going to check
> them against books we're working on since it isn't actually a helpful
> search. This decision came about from a discussion with our Collection
> Development team for me to better understand the whole process. I explained
> to them why we had a Being Scanned List, and when they explained to me how
> difficult it was to maintain, we brainstormed what to do and how to try to
> make everyone happy. I don't want to waste any of your time having you
> email me books that you're working on if we can't actually give you an
> accurate answer, and I really want to avoid having volunteers and staff
> duplicate what we're working on.
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> As always, feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns. Thank
> you all for your dedication and hard work.
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> Best,
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> Madeleine Linares
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> Volunteer Coordinator
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> Bookshare, a Benetech Initiative
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> 650-644-3459
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> volunteer <madeleinel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>@bookshare.org
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