[bksvol-discuss] sci-fi validators
- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Bookshare Vol Group <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:16:54 -0700 (PDT)
Hi all,
Last week, the used bookstore across the street called us and said that they
had loads of sci-fi books in their free box. The books are old and smelly and
no one will buy them. Would we like them? You bet! Claire and I zipped over
and grabbed a slew of books, and brought them back to the office. There are 20
BSO sci-fi books and 47 new sci-fi books for the collection. I have 38 BSO
sci-fi books from my father's collection, so at this point we now have 58 BSO
sci-fi books, 47 new sci-fi books, and 38 classical music books that we're
trying to process. Whew! Of course now the scanner has been making strange
noises, so it needs to go in for maintenance. I'm hoping we can have it in and
out of a local shop within a few days. We'll see how that goes.
I want to submit the BSO sci-fi books before the new sci-fi books, hoping that
the validators will work on them. I'm afraid if I submit the new ones first,
the BSO ones will be ignored. The sci-fi collection is in pretty bad shape,
mainly because the first library of books to start the collection was mostly
sci-fi. Way back when, people were anxious to start the collection, so they
scanned the books and plopped them into the collection without any validation.
I think about half of the fair books are sci-fi now. I'm trying to upgrade the
sci-fi so we have excellent scans of most books. I managed to sneak a few BSO
sci-fi books through the scanner this morning before the noise got really loud.
I'll try to submit them later this week. Please validate them. After the rest
of the BSO ones are submitted, we'll start on the new ones. Of course the
classical music ones will be sprinkled in there too.
And that's the status from the office, Carrie
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