[bksvol-discuss] Re: books being scanned list--question
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:10:01 -0700 (PDT)
No. I copy my list, delete what's in the message space and paste the new list
there. I only put the bksvol-discus address in the address space and
books-being-scanned-list in the subject space.
If someone sends me a wish list request offlist I forward that letter to the
volunteer list.
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned
list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
--- On Wed, 8/26/09, Reggie & Brooks <regandlon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Reggie & Brooks <regandlon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books being scanned list--question
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 5:17 PM
Cindy:
When you send the books being scanned to the list, are you
sending a forwarded list? Out of curiosity only. Sometimes I find nothing
below what I think is a forwarded header. It just gives your name and a
header of time, date, etc. Perhaps it is below
all of that? Actually never looked way diown the
page.
Curiously
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Cindy
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:05 PM
To:
bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re:
Courtesy
Bob and Pavi if there's any way I can help, let me know. I
would think that a simple Word list (or rtf) would be the solution. You
could send it to me as an attachment and I could paste it in a section
titled Being scanned by Outsourcers. in the list of books being scanned.
It would no doubt lengthen the list, but I think the volunteers
would prefer that to having their work be wasted. If anyone feels it's
too
long to be part of the email I post on the volunteer email list I'm
willing to send the list as an attachment to any individual who wants
it.
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the
collection) and books-being-scanned list available at sites
below
Wish List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books
Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
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On Wed, 8/26/09, Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From:
Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:
[bksvol-discuss] Re: Courtesy
To:
bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 6:35
AM
Hi Kim.
As chairperson of the vat, I can assure you
that bookshare, especially Pavi, is aware of this problem and it is
receiving the highest possible priority. Pavi and I have a weekly
telephone conversation that lasts about an hour in length. For the last
three or four weeks the problem of bolunteers and outsourcers scanning
each others books is the first topic we discuss, and will continue to
be
so.
Unfortunately, saying that this is a high
priority item doesn't solve the problem. We have tried posting the list
of books being scanned by outsourcers as excel spreadsheets, and it
crashed most of our computers. (Not a good solution.) We think we have
worked out a solution, and the problem is now how to get the list
updated in a timely manner.
Pavi is on vacation until August 31, but
after that we'll continue working towards a meaningful
solution.
Please hang in there until then. I really
believe we are close to a solution.
Thanks,
Bob
“We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all
of us will live on in the future we make,”
Senator Edward M. Kenedy
----- Original
Message -----
From:
Kim Friedman
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent:
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 7:21 AM
Subject:
[bksvol-discuss] Re: Courtesy
What gets me is I feel for you guys.
I'm wondering is Bookshare staff on the ball about this. It doesn't
do
to alienate volunteers who are doing their very best to insure
excellent quality books being added to the collection only to have
their work undercut by others. Isn't Pavi or Carrie advocating for
your work? Why isn't there some communications to these outsourcers
informing them that they should do something else as other folks,
namely you lot, are scanning and proofreading the following titles? I
really think the volunteers need a staunch ombudsman or arbitrator to
make sure that what you scan and proofread isn't swept from out of
your hands unless you give it over. I think this is not only a matter
of courtesy but a need for communication and co-ordination among all
the participants -- Bookshare staff, the volunteers, and the
outsourcers. I really think Staff should not allow resentments to
grow
making the volunteers discouraged or feel undervalued. It's very nice
they talk the talk, but they have to walk the walk, I.e., do some
serious actions to make sure volunteers know that the staff is for
them and not sabotaging them. I may not understand the history here,
and maybe I'm off base, but something must be done somehow. Regards,
Kim.
From:
bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Christina
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 7:03
PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:
[bksvol-discuss] Re: Courtesy
Hi. I agree with
Elizabeth's message. (Sadly it's on my other computer so I can't
quote it here.)
I would deeply appreciate it if the
outsourcers and all volunteers would check the books-being-scanned
list before processing a book. I just had another book, which is
being edited, put into the collection by another submitter and
proofer
team.
If someone wants to scan a book that the
list says I'll be doing, I honestly don't mind. It just means
I'll go onto the next book. What really frustrates me is when
book after book that I've already scanned gets added to the
collection
by someone else. I understand mistakes happen but when I spend
hours of my time working on books, only to have someone else beat me
to it... I get very annoyed and discouraged.
I'm still happy volunteering for
Bookshare and I don't intend to quit; I just hate having my time and
efforts completely wasted.
Christina
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