okkky thank you.... I must say open library is a great site... i love this.... only place where I find "Jewel in the crown".....
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 6:55 PM, jessamyn c. west <jessa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
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