Yay!! Many, many thanksto Engineering from all of us. from all of us Cindy Join us in celebrating our 10th Anniversary! TinyURL.com/752cyrs >________________________________ > From: Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Cc: Alisa Moore <alisam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 1:07 AM >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Improvements to website speed and book quality >reporting procedures > > >WOW! I just renewed a book, at 2 a.m, that before the improvements would have >taken about 5 minutes at best at this time of night to renew (usually more >like ten minutes). It took less than a minute total. Then I uploaded a book >that had been proofread. That took less than two minutes, including the time >to upload the book using dial-up! Before the improvements it was taking at >least 15 minutes to half an hour, at this time of night, if it worked at all. > >Break out the party hats! And please let engineering know because this is a stupendous improvement! > >Judy s. > >On 5/8/2012 12:32 PM, Alisa Moore wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>Today we learned of several improvements to our website that will positively >>impact your work! >> >>Some important hardware improvements were made, resulting in shorter >>submission processing times. While you’ll generally get better results >>submitting your scans and proofs during the day (when the system is running >>optimally for our 200k+ members, and because system maintenance runs over >>night), you should see faster processing times both day and night. We >>anticipate even more improvements in the next iteration (in a couple of >>months). Please let me know if you notice improvements and we can celebrate >>together! >> >>Book quality reports: Submitting a book quality report is now much easier. >>Simply sign into Bookshare, pull up the book, click on “report book quality >>issue” (in the upper right hand corner), fill out the form, and you’re done! >>Yay! >> >>On another note, we have a new publisher partner, Cornell University Press. >> >>Alisa K. Moore >>Volunteer Program Manager >>Benetech >>www.bookshare.org >>650-352-0087 >> >>Join us in celebrating our 10th Anniversary! >> > >