[bksvol-discuss] Re: I am not happy.
- From: Marilyn Beasley <mbeasley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:17:20 -0400
Dear Caitlyn,
May I say, first of all, I love your first name. Truly lovely, a
pleasure
to the eye and to the ear.
Now to your message. If I were your validator in this case, and I got
the book returned to step 1 "Hold for V/S," I would very quickly look
and find out if I could fix the errors shown. If I could, then I
would, gladly
and quickly. I would only hope I got the first shot, ahead of the
submitter.
If it was, in your example, "a few little things," or in Mayrie's
example,
a few wayward pieces of gibberish, I should have caught them in the
first place -- because that's what I do, I validate, I proofread is
what I
tell my family and friends because who understands "validate"?
If a scanning person doesn't scan well, their work gets rejected. If a
proofreading person doesn't proofread well, it seems only fair that
their work gets rejected, too. In their proofreading process, they had
the opportunity to get help from the scanner and should have. That's
what I do, that's what I see other people on the list do, there's
nothing
wrong or illegal about it. Lots of scanning people even encourage it!
I've just convinced myself that there's no reason for any book to be
returned to the submitter. Gosh, I'm easy...
Caitlyn, in your last paragraph, you question whether Mayrie would
rather
"just let it go back to step one and hope another volunteer picks it
up and
fixes it." I think that's not Pavi's and Carrie's wish. They don't
want just
*ANY* volunteer to fix it, they want one of the original people
involved.
Sorry for the rant, I'm having a rough day.
Marilyn
On Oct 3, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Caitlyn and Nicky wrote:
I can see your point in this, Mayrie. However, this recently
happened to me
with a book. In my case, I know the validater sepnt several weeks
fixing
things which I have no idea how they got messed up, corrected some
measurements which escaped my notice, etc. The book was returned for
further editing, there were only a few tiny little things, which I
fixed and
then uploaded. Honestly, I thought the changes could've been made
by the
validater, but it was no big deal for me to do it. I didn't think
it was
fair for me to get credit for both submitting and validating the
book, as
bookshare forbids us validating and submitting the same book. I
wrote a
note to Carrie, and she fixed things up so the validater could get the
credit for all her work on the book, and I got credit for submitting
it in
the first place...
What would you suggest should be done, seeing as we can't get credit
for
both validation and submission of the same book? Just let it go
back to
step one and hope another volunteer picks it up and fixes it??
Curiously,
Caitlyn
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