[bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing books you're validating
- From: "Kaitlyn Hill" <Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:15:05 -0700
Hi Tracy,
<<Oh, I left out another thing that can stretch time--those bosses of mine!
They keep giving me work to do! Don't they realize that they pay me my
healthy salary so that I can validate books for BookShare?! And there are
only so many hours in a day one can spend at a computer.>>
Yeah, what they expect us to work while there? I do keep BookShare projects
at work. Lately with my paddling time being later that is what I do after I
clock out before heading to the river.
Kaitlyn
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 5:52 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing books you're validating
I want to say that, while 30 days is perfectly reasonable for most books,
that's not always the case. I can think of 3 books I have done fairly
recently that took a month or more, and I wasn't "poring over every word".
They were just very large, and in need of a bit of work. Further, they
were not in such bad shape that they deserved rejection, and, had I been
that silly, most likely no one would have bothered to rescan them.
Quantity is good. Quality is good. In fact, I'm all for it. Quickness
of turn-around is also good, but, if I have to choose between quality and
quickness, I'll take quality every time. And if my efforts can make a
book more readable, without me having to read every word, then I'm all for
it and that's what I do.
Oh, I left out another thing that can stretch time--those bosses of mine!
They keep giving me work to do! Don't they realize that they pay me my
healthy salary so that I can validate books for Bookshare?! And there are
only so many hours in a day one can spend at a computer.
Tracy
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Jake Brownell wrote:
> Hi E,
> While there are possibly some issues that are indeed more important
than
> validation time, if we do not attempt to maintain a quick turn around
> through the system, then BookShare loses part of its advantage.
> The initial message suggested a longer validation time and in response
> to that we have moved on to max times of validating. I would support such
a
> max time provided that in rare cases for practical purposes the time can
be
> extended. I think though the difficulty lies in finding a way that will
> A. not be abused
> B. not be granted lightly
> and C. that will not take away from already scarce staff resources.
>
> I too, have seen books that were renewed and renewed to only end up not
> being validated. I think that those validators who poor over every word of
a
> book that is already in great shape is great because the scan will be that
> much better, however, I urge them to remember that there are far lesser
> quality books that are making their way into the collection that could
> really use that type of work.
>
> One reason I do not do much validating is that without access to Kurzweil
> 1000's Rank Spelling it is difficult without reading a majority of a book
to
> really tell the shape it is in. Hopefully this will change in the future
and
> I'll do more than just scan, but I still have a couple hundred titles on
my
> list to scan, so I'll still be busy for a while yet. *grin*
>
> Jake
>
>
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> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 12:22 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: renewing books you're validating
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>
>> I agree. Sometimes I quickly validate a book. Sometimes it takes longer
>> than a week. There are worse issues to be addressed than keeping a book
>> out for a few weeks to validate.
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