[bksvol-discuss] Re: what volunteers may submit to Bookshare
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:12:16 -0700 (PDT)
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> ----- Original Message
> -----
> From:
> Carrie Karnos
>
> To: Bookshare
> Vol Group
> Sent: Friday,
> February 13, 2009 1:14
> AM
> Subject:
> [bksvol-discuss] Re: what
> volunteers may submit to Bookshare
>
>
>
> Hi gang,
>
> In response to your question about the wish list books,
> yes, one of these days (probably in a month or two), we
> will start buying and
> processing the wish list books. There are several types
> of books that we will
> leave on the wish list, since the grant does not cover
> them.
> One type of
> book we will ignore are the romance, erotica, and adult
> content books. The
> grant is for educational books, and most romances
> aren't educational, at least
> not in the sense that government means :-).
> The other type of book we will
> ignore are BSO books. The grant says we must put 100,000
> NEW books, which
> excludes replacements. That being said, I assume most
> people know that in the
> past 4-6 months, we have instituted a new way of handling
> book quality issues,
> so we are addressing the problem of quality, but
> we're not using grant money
> to do so.
> My recommendation to everyone is to spend a week or two
> thinking
> about books that you would like to see in the collection,
> formulate a list,
> check the books on your list against the collection, the
> books in the checkout
> queue, the books being processed, and Cindy's being
> scanned list, and then
> send the non-duplicated titles to Cindy. (Please
> don't everyone do this
> tonight. If she gets inundated by wish list requests,
> she'll shoot me.)
>
>
> Carrie
>
> PS, If anyone is worried about me being shot, I would
> just like to say that Cindy lives 400 miles away from me,
> and she's not a
> violent person. I was joking!
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> From:
> Monica Willyard
> <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:
> bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc:
> volunteer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday,
> February 12, 2009 5:01:14
> PM
> Subject: Re:
> what
> volunteers may submit to Bookshare
>
> Elizabeth, you're asking some
> great questions. I don't know if Amy knows
> about the wish list of books. It
> certainly would give Amy some ideas about
> what our readers are already
> requesting. There are tons of educational books
> being requested on there.
> I'm going to CC this to Pavi and ask her to pass
> this idea along to Amy. I
> think that's the right channel for presenting the
> idea. If not, maybe
> she'll let us know what to do in the future. For
> anyone
> interested in it,
> the wish list can be found at
> http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/wish_list/wish_list.htm
>
> Cindy maintains it
> and has been doing so for the past 18 months or so. She
> updates it regularly
> when someone posts a request.
>
> Monica
> Willyard
> "The best way to predict the future is to create
> it." -- Peter
> Drucker
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of E.
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 7:04 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:
> [bksvol-discuss] Re: what volunteers may submit to
> bookshare
>
> That makes
> sense. I simply did not understand before. Good
> explanation.
> Do you think
> any funds will be spent on wish list books?
>
> Elizabeth
>
> At 06:40
> PM 2/12/2009, you wrote:
> >Hi Elizabeth. The librarian is helping
> Bookshare decide what to buy and
> >scan. She's not limiting what
> volunteers choose to submit or work on.
> >Bookshare has money to spend on
> purchasing and scanning books that comply
> >with the education grant. It
> makes sense that a librarian would help
> >Bookshare figure out where the
> collection needs improvement as they're
> >choosing books. Carrie has
> worked hard on this in the past years, and I'm
> >glad she's got some help
> now. The two ladies will work together to turn
> >Bookshare into a more
> well-rounded, timely, and educationally supportive
> >library. There is
> still plenty of room for volunteers to add books as they
> >see
> fit.
> >
> >Monica Willyard
> >"The best way to predict the future
> is to create it." -- Peter Drucker
> >
> >-----Original
> Message-----
> >From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> On Behalf Of E.
> >Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:28 PM
> >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject:
> [bksvol-discuss] what volunteers may submit to bookshare
> >
> >Did I
> miss something? Are there new criteria determining what
> kinds
> >of books
> volunteers may submit to bookshare?
> >I did hear the books themselves
> will now be arranged in more
> useful
> >categories.
> >Elizabeth
> >
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