It's a two week hard-coded limit. If there is no one on the waitlist you can check it out again immediately.
________ Jessamyn librarian.net ::: jessamyn.com ::: jessamyn.info ::: box 345, randolph vt 05060 On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 6:57 AM, syeda bukhari <syedabukhari1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
