Bookshare Reaches The Big 37
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008Allison Hilliker, an intern for Bookshare.org has given us some great news. On one of the Bookshare mailing lists she wrote, “I wanted to write and let you know that Bookshare now officially has 37,000 books live on the Bookshare.org site! Thanks to all the volunteers for all your help in making Bookshare such a great, and ever-growing, success!”
With the help of several new volunteers, the addition of Bookshare staff members, and the publisher-donated books, we’re well on our way to hitting the 50,000 book mark by nextyear. Even more important is the steady improvement in the quality of the books being added to the collection as well as the broad scope of books being scanned.
Several volunteers are actively working on filling in books where we have partial series by various authors. I’m currently working with Susan and Larry Lumpkin on filling in the Dry Creek series, and I’m also scanning books in the Hannah Swinson mystery series by Joanne Fluke. After that, I’m planning to work on the Jane Jeffrey series of mysteries by Jill Churchill. Can you tell I like mysteries? 
I’m excited by our progress and am planning a big online party for when we hit that 50,000 mark. You’ll hear my cheering all the way from Georgia. 