[bksvol-discuss] Re: possible improvement to website
- From: "Marissa Mika" <Marissa.M@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:30:05 -0800
Oh believe me, it's on there. In bright bold red type. Well, I
exaggerate, but it's there.
Marissa
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Hi Marissa,
If you don't have it on your list already, maybe you should add having
the
rejection notices automatically include the reason for rejection along
with
the comments field.
Thanks,
Dave
At 03:57 PM 12/29/2004, you wrote:
>Hi Mary,
>
>I keep a folder of these sorts of things by my desk called "long term
>site improvements." When we have our next "where are we going and what
>are our priorities in terms of serving our users" discussion (which is
>more frequent than one might think), I'll be sure to bring it up. I
>think it's an excellent idea.
>
>Marissa
>
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>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mary Otten
>Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 12:08 PM
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] possible improvement to website
>
>I guess this is for Marissa or whomever else from staff might monitor
>here. I think this has been raised before, but I thought I would raise
>it again, as I don't remember if it had been commented upon one way or
>the
>other. Do you think it would be possible for people who release a book
>back into the fvalidation pool to be able to include a comment as to
why
>they were doing so, which comment would appear in the list of
>comments related to the book when somebody goes to upload it? If you
get
>something that you don't feel like dealing with or can't deal with, but
>don't think is bad enough to warrant nuking, it would be nice to be
able
>
>to let the next person who comes along see a comment as to why you
>released the book. It would help them know if its something they can
>deal with: e.g. there's a really garbled page and you can't find a copy
>in your
>local library, or maybe don't own a scanner so can't fix it. If you
>could put that comment, another validator who also didn't have a
scanner
>would know not to take that book and leave it for somebody who could
fix
>the
>problem.
>Mary
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