[bksvol-discuss] submitter's names
- From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:01:10 -0700
Jake, I have given a great deal of thought to your concern about requiring
submitter's names and I respectfully disagree. Perhaps you have had to deal
with over-intrusive validators but I never have; in fact, just the opposite.
One of my earlier submissions was being validated by Kenneth Cross and he wrote
to let me know that there were two missing pages in the book. I was extremely
grateful that he was able to do that as the book would otherwise have been
rejected. And it's also very pleasant to have a validator take the time to
congratulate you on a good submission. Bookshare, in my opinion, doesn't need
quantity anymore; it needs quality and if the submitter can't get feedback from
the validator, how is he going to improve? I can understand that there are
submitters whose lives are too busy to allow them to be on this list. Bookshare
does invite new volunteers to join this list but I think they should take this
a step further and let new volunteers know how important it is for them to
provide contact information for the validator. As someone else has pointed out,
I do give thought as to whose submissions I validate, and am always a little
uncomfortable when it is the notorious "Bookshare volunteer." You have been so
helpful to me that I don't like disagreeing with you, but I think this matter
is too important to ignore. I would be interested in knowing how others on the
list feel about what degree of importance it should have on changes Bookshare
needs to make in order to improve their collection. Jill
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