Neil: Happy New Year! OK, thanks for the GLIMS Book production update. Greg: Get ready! All other GLIMS book editors: Just as Greg and I did with the chapter corrections returned from authors, my plan is for Greg and me to do all the final corrected-proof validations and indexing validations. So unless for some unanticipated reason we need other editors' or authors' help, you should not have anything else to do. However, we will make all the corrected proofs available to all editors just in case anybody feels the need to provide a further set of eyes on a chapter. It will require immediate attention (72 hours) when corrected proofs are received. Authors: I am unsure how long it takes to go from final proofs to publication, but these days it is not long. If Neil gets the corrected proofs returned within 4 weeks, then no more than 10 days further will be needed to have everything completely back in the publisher's hands and completely and forever out of our hands until we see the printed book. As noted above, at this stage I am happy to have Greg and me do all remaining work on the side of authors and editors to keep the process streamlined and efficient. But you'll at least have a chance to see your final corrected proof and if needed make a further minor response. No big changes and not many small ones will be permitted--mainly just typo corrections and correction of significant errors (of which there should be almost none, because authors and then Greg and I went through the first proofs very thoroughly). --Jeff Jeffrey S. KargelDepartment of Hydrology & Water ResourcesUniversity of ArizonaTucson, AZ 85742 USAEmail(1) jeffreyskargel@hotmail.comEmail(2) kargel@hwr.arizona.eduMobile phone: 520-780-7759www.glims.org
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 13:18:11 +0000 From: neil@originator-books.com To: jeffreyskargel@hotmail.com CC: gleonard@email.arizona.edu; bookman@praxis-publishing.co.uk; Janet.Sterritt@springer.com Subject: Correction of GLIMs and index work
Dear All,
I am working through the returned chapters at the moment prior to passing them to the typesetter to correct. In advance I wanted to send you the indexing work I've completed for Chapter 1 - just so you can see what to expect. Of course, this will need to be added to the index entries for the rest of the book AND it will need to be edited and proof read but it gives you an idea. There is some material being deleted in Chapter 1 which might affect the page entries - any instances where this is a concern I've marked the entry with "(CHECK)" to remind us to check that particular entry for its page number.
I think with the amount of work needed to correct the book and produce the index we will be looking at the end of January for completion. I have agreed to provide batches to you - these won't start until around the 20 January.
Best wishes to you all.
Neil