Vote on each passage on its own merits. You won't see how anyone else voted — that keeps every vote independent.
Each passage needs agreement from other reviewers before it goes public — your vote is one of several. Nothing you see here is live on the Books pages yet. Passages flagged check transcription may have an OCR slip — read carefully before you vote.
— tags flagged interesting · — of — decided
You’re deciding, book by book, which of its Library-of-Congress subject tags are worth
showing on the public card. Interesting = show it; Skip = never show it. A choice carries to every
book that has the same heading. Only you see this.
— captures awaiting confirmation
Each card is a district’s OWN public catalog record for a book — a screenshot, or the archived
catalog response our scanner saved (open it to read it). Confirm it shows this title, and check which of the
district’s subject headings to publish as school-attributed tags (e.g. “Sexual abuse — Fiction”).
Those become “this school tags it…” on the book’s page, backed by that evidence. Reject if the evidence is
wrong, unreadable or unavailable.
What you’re doing here
You’re helping verify what’s actually inside library books. Our reader software pulls candidate passages and the exact page each one is on. Your job is one quick call per passage:
Approve — this passage really does show the content topic it’s tagged with, quoted accurately.
Reject — it’s mis-tagged, off-topic, or the text is garbled or mis-transcribed.
You won’t see how anyone else voted — that keeps every vote independent. A passage only goes public once enough reviewers agree on it.
Why reject this quote?
Pick a reason — it tells us how to fix the tagging. Or type your own if none fit.
Something off with this one?
Use this when you can’t cleanly approve or reject — leave a note, and if the content topic looks wrong, pick the one you think fits. This goes to the operator, not the public.
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