Hi, Monica. How long ago was this? I agree that just continuing to renew is just a band-Aid solution, but do you still have the file or did you delete it? If you still have it, you could re-submit it since you put so much work into it. That's what I would have done, anyway. Take care.
-- Julie Morales Email & Windows/MSN Messenger: mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx http://juliemorales.avonrepresentative.com/ Currently in Winchester Regional, Virginia Clear, 82°F Wind:Calm A friend is a gift you give yourself. Monica Willyard wrote:
I would like to add my support to what Elizabeth has written here. Telling someone to continue renewing books over and over again is a band-aid solution that doesn't truly address the issue. It works for books like romances that might just need a page or two to be rescanned. Validating textbooks with charts and diagrams is a very different process. Some of you who have never taken on a textbook have no idea just how much work and attention to detail textbooks require. It's easy to get burned out on doing them if you don't pace yourself and give yourself pleasure reading and down time. Having a reminder to renew books does help quite a lot. However, I had spent several weeks fixing up charts in a textbook only to have it expire when I went to the hospital last spring. When I returned, I found that someone had uploaded it with its many errors intact into the collection. If I'd been able to somehow put that book on a list with comments about its problems, or even just have been able to leave comments for the next validater, Bookshare might have a much better copy of that book now. As it is, it's the student using that book who loses most because the charts contain data he or she will need to understand the text in the book. It's been my experience that people don't usually do BSO scans of textbooks since they are expensive to buy and become outdated rather quickly when the publisher releases a new edition. That makes thorough validation even more critical since it gives us just one shot to get things right. With the textbook I mentioned in this post, there is no way I'd rescan it. It's 800 some odd pages and costs $130 new or $60 used. I have no personal interest in its topic, and I suspect that is a sentiment shared by many people who consider the idea of doing a BSO for our fair rated textbooks. Elizabeth's idea is a good one because it would act as a quality control to help difficult validations get through the system in the best shape possible.Monica Willyard E. wrote:
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