[bksvol-discuss] Re: the admin cue
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 19:11:02 -0700 (PDT)
And unfortunately taking books of the Wish List when
people indicate that they're scanning it isn't
something that someone not in the office can do--and
least I haven't figured out how. smile
Cindy
--- Gerald Hovas <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Elizabeth,
>
> The Bookshare system already keeps track of this
> information. Gustavo isn't
> spending hours maintaining a list, only a few
> minutes running a querry on
> the database and e-mailing the results to Rui.
> Generating a list of what's
> in the admin queue probably doesn't take more than 5
> minutes since it
> shouldn't take any longer to run this querry than to
> run the one which
> generates the Step 1 list. Since Marissa's list
> appears to contain 3
> querries instead of 1, though, then updating the
> list probably takes more
> like 10 minutes instead of five.
>
> The volunteering community's problem is that the
> current HTML interface
> which members and volunteers use to access
> Bookshare's database isn't set up
> to handle this querry for us, so the querry has to
> be run by someone who has
> direct access to the database, in other words,
> someone on the staff.
> Hopefully we can convince the powers that be soon to
> bump adding this
> capability to the website up the priority list. I
> think that's more our
> problem, not that Bookshare doesn't want to do it,
> but that Bookshare's
> strategic goals are being given a higher priority,
> and Bookshare's
> Engineering resources are limited.
>
> BTW, the Wish List is a different matter. The
> information on that list
> would have to be maintained by hand since requests
> for a book to be added to
> the list is done through e-mail.
>
> HTH
>
> Gerald
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of E.
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 12:45 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] the admin cue
>
> Here's one for the site engineers. A book is sent
> from the step 2 page by
> a volunteer as approved. The program cuts in. It
> takes the book's name
> and immediately adds it to a list of "books in admin
> cue" along with the
> name of the submitter and validator and date.
>
> This list can be used to sort out confusion and can
> be automated thus
> saving Gustavo the task.
>
> I say this because I am sure I have books waiting in
> the admin cue which I
> have forgotten.
>
> E.
>
>
> At 11:59 AM 4/3/2006, you wrote:
>
> >I'm writing a quick message to say that I am
> unsubscribing for a while. I
> >had my baby Friday night, and of course there isn't
> any extra time at all
> >in my life now.
> >
> >My baby is a boy as we expected. His name is
> Jayden Kylar Van
> >Oosterwijck. He is very healthy, read can scream
> and riggle with amazing
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> 20 inches long.
> >
> >Unfortunately I wasn't able to have a water birth
> as I had wanted, but I
> >guess I am still glad I thought I would until I got
> to the hospital
> >because it made the apprehention I felt about labor
> better.
> >
> >Well, if anyone wants to contact me you can write
> to me directly. I will
> >continue to put my E-mail address in the comments
> with all my uploads, and
> >Kellie will let me know if anything of great
> importance is said on this
> list.
> >
> >Now if I can only find the unsubscribe information.
> :-)
> >
> >Sarah Van Oosterwijck
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