[bksvol-discuss] Re: old books on step 1
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:50:36 -0500
Dear Jake and Jill'
...has a certain ring to it...
and Fellow Booksharians,
You are discussing taking care when filling out the author field in the
uploading form at an opportune time for the book I just finished validating 5
minutes ago. Clarifying what I should write in the author field with you might
prevent me from making a mistake which could send this book in to admin
approval limbo.
The book is dear author students write about the books that changed their lives
, and, yes, the first letter in all of the words is lower case in the official
title.
On the title page it says, Collected by Weekly Reader's Read Magazine
Introduction by Lois Lowry.
The copyright is 1995 by Weekly Reader Corporation.
The library of congress cataloging-in-Publication Data says, Dear author;
students write about the books that changed their lives/collected by weekly
reader's Read magazine; introduction by Lois Lowry.
What would you put in the Author field?
Usually when I go to step two and enter upload, I'm prepared and complete the
form on the first attempt. If I were to enter upload and read the form just to
check to see what the scanner wrote there and then closed that window without
making any changes, would that confuse the system? The scanner is experienced
and I might do well just to go with whatever she's filled in, but I'd really
like your opinions.
About our goal for next year, in setting my own take for a group goal, I'd
adopted one more book than we added this year which really boiled down in my
mind to 5001. I'm really not sure when Bookshare was founded but 6 years was
the longest I'd noticed anyone here has volunteered so I did crude math and
figured the average for new books per year was about five thousand. I also
remembered that influx of Spanish books which helped our total for this year.
Information on nonprofits suggested that their services tend to wax and wane in
cycles dropping as one crop of administrators and volunteers lose enthusiasm,
energy and interest and increases when a new group of people become involved
bringing with them new ideas and vigor. My hope is that the cycle is such a
long one with Bookshare that I won't see any waning in my lifetime.
Another factor is that while we'll always have thousands of books to add, many
of the most popular will be in the collection meaning we may have to dig a
little deeper to find choice volumes to scan and validate.
I'm not implying we're in danger of running out of material or will loose
momentum any time soon. I'm just noticing our five thousand books a year
average and thinking it's a fabulous accomplishment and a worthy goal for 2007.
While my interest is in validating, I also think we can all serve Bookshare by
attracting as many subscribers as possible, because it's the demand for our
accessible library that will fuel funding and thereby staff and technical
improvements Bookshare must have to thrive.
That's my take on the big picture for a long time because where I'm happiest is
as a validator and Bookshare consumer, so while I await your answers, it's on
to sleep for me and then on to validate Stories Behind The Best Loved Songs of
Christmas and The Book of Lost Tales Volume 2, for me.
Just had a frivolous, window dressing, kind of thought, it almost being 2007.
My personal, official, last word for a group goal for 2007 is 5007 books for
all of Bookshare and 57 books for my validation goal.
In reading, scanning, validating, advising and being friends, I'm very happy to
be among you and wish everyone a Happy New Year!
Always With Love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: Jake Brownell
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 9:41 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: old books on step 1
Hi Jill,
You have brought up a very good example that I think everyone can learn from.
Here's the crux of the matter, Gustavo repeatedly says:
Please verify if Hertz and Marshall are the authors or editors of this
publication.
He is looking at the book's meta data, which is what is entered on the form
on the website. Here is the author field on the form:
Rosanna Hertz, Nancy L. Marshall
which by ommission says they're not editors. Yet when Sarah validates the
book in her comments she says they're editors, yet she has failed to indicate
this on the form, thus why Gustavo has repeatedly kicked it back. (Sarah has
been under the impression that Gustavo is looking at the title page.)
Yes, I agree that by the third message Gustavo should have said something
else to better communicate about this book. Presumably if both of those authors
are editors that simply needs to be corrected on the form and the book will be
accepted. Under that assumption, for the record they should be entered as:
Rosanna Hertz (editor), Nancy L. Marshall (editor)
Anybody up for giving this validation a whirl now?
HTH,
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: Jill O'Connell
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:43 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] old books on step 1
Feeling a little guilty about the old books on step 1 I decided to download
Working Families. What I found was a problem with whether the two names given
as authors were really that or if they were the publishers. Sarah Blake tried
discussing this twice with Gustavo and then gave up. I had this experience once
myself with no meaningful feedback from him and I suspect that many of the
other old books have the same problem. Since two other people had taken the
book after Sarah quit and it is still on the list, you can bet I wouldn't touch
it. My opinion is that these issues need to be dealt with in office unless
Gustavo is going to take the time to educate us as to exactly what he wants us
to do to convince him.
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