may I ask what is the limit to keep a book.... they automatic return it without notification
On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 4:50 AM, jessamyn c. west <jessa...@gmail.com> wrote: > We're also pretty communicative through the official channels which > are openlibr...@archive.org and the Twitter account, both of which I > run. > > I have some opinions about how the project HAS run but I also know > that we recently hired someone, Brenton Cheng, who has Open Library as > their main responsibility and have gotten a commitment (also recent) > that the project will be maintained (it was touch and go for a while > and that was not really a public facing debate). This is not touching > on the scanning issue which is not OL's thing. I'm not sure what the > original topic here was? > > So, things are actually getting fixed, tickets are getting closed and > staff (i.e. me) are more optimistic. > > However that doesn't mean that larger longstanding issues are going to > magically resolve or that we're all totally clear on what the path > forward is. We understand we've lost a lot of people's trust and while > I'm not happy about that, I also think it's totally deserved. There > has been a marked disconnect between the public face of the project > (mostly just stats and a website) and the actual reality of an > understaffed, undersupported project. That requires some cultural > change to turn around, not just new staff or more funding. > > Feel free to contact me directly or through the OL address if there > are specific things you want to discuss. I agree that the project has > more potential than it will likely realize, but it's also already > doing some pretty interesting and unique things that are worth > attempting to support. Everyone's got to make their own decisions > about how much they want to be involved. > > ________ > Jessamyn > > librarian.net ::: jessamyn.com ::: jessamyn.info ::: box 345, randolph vt > 05060 > > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Jon Leech <oddh...@sonic.net> wrote: > > I did try contacting Alexis through several channels and never > > received a response. As with almost everything about IA/OL, except for > > Karen's participation here, that appears to be a black hole. > > > > It's very sad. OL could be a wonderful resource, but the project is > > completely opaque, nonresponsive to actual problems except for Karen, > > based on an ancient and very cranky UI and a significantly corrupt > > database, and there seems no prospect of any of that ever changing. I'd > > be willing to support OL both financially and by trying to contribute > > coding effort if I thought that there would be any point to doing so - > > which there isn't as things stand now. > > > > Jon > > > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 08:07:19AM -0700, Karen Coyle wrote: > >> Try ale...@archive.org - that other may have been a deliberate > misdirection. > >> ;-) - kc > >> > >> On 4/1/16 3:17 AM, Jon Leech wrote: > >> >On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 07:58:01PM -0700, Karen Coyle wrote: > >> >>The book scanning operation is separate from Open Library, although > access > >> >>to the scanned books ends up in OL. You should probably contact Alexis > >> >>Rossi, who, I believe, is now managing the scanning and lending > project. > >> >>aro...@archive.org, if I am not mistaken. > >> > > >> > Thanks, Karen. However, 'aro...@archive.org' is giving 'User > >> >unknown' errors in response to email, so that's probably not them - any > >> >chance you know an alternate email for Alexis? > >> > Jon > > _______________________________________________ > > Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org > > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org >
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