[bookshare-discuss] FW: [bksvol-discuss] To Patient Bookshare.org Member and Volunteers!
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:18:20 -0500
Janice addressed the following message to members and volunteers, but only
sent it to the Volunteer Discussion List for some reason. Since someone
complained about there only being Spanish books in the New Books list, I'm
forwarding it on to the bookshare-discuss list so you'll know why there's
been so many Spanish books added to the collection lately.
BTW, if you only want to see a list of new books in English, then click on
the following link.
Browse
<http://www.bookshare.org/web/BooksByAdvancedSearch.html?titlestring=&author
string=&sort=4&language=en&quality=0&category%5B%5D=0&operation=submit&submi
t=Search> New Books - English Only
This is a call to Bookshare's Advanced Search which lists books in English
and sortes them by the most recent publication date. I recommend adding it
to your favorites list so you can pull it up any time you want. Don't
forget to log in if you want to have books rated Adult included in the list.
Gerald
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Janice Carter
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 12:10 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] To Patient Bookshare.org Member and Volunteers!
Bookshare.org Spanish language Book Update:
Just a few more days of Spanish-only books in the "New Books" section.
We have completed our deliverables for a very generous grant from the
Community Technology Foundation of California. Bookshare.org received this
grant to provide 1,000 books in Spanish, a Spanish language version of a
subset of the Bookshare.org website, and Spanish language legal documents.
This grant also provided 250 free subscriptions for Spanish speaking
Californians who qualified to receive Bookshare.org books.
It has been quite an accomplishment for the staff here, especially Gustavo
Galindo. He has been the manager of this grant (for those of you who wonder
"what does Gustavo do") from the beginning. Susie McKinnon, our Sales
Manager, has been working with a number of California schools and districts
to make sure these free subscriptions get to those who really need them;
Jennifer Sutton, Marissa Mika and several local volunteers have done a
phenomenal job of getting these books through the system. And several
Benetech engineering folks have been wearing lots of hats to get this done.
As always, your patience over the past month is much appreciated. To
prepare for future similar scenarios, engineering upgrades for "New Books,"
"Categories," "Search," etc. should eliminate some of these problems.
Janice Carter
Director, Literacy Programs
Benetech
480 S. California Ave., Suite 201
Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA
(650) 475-5440 x122
(650) 759-5828 cell
(650) 475-1066 fax
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