[bksvol-discuss] Re: Are volunteers really that important anymore?
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:44:56 EDT
By no means are publishers, outsourcers and volunteers mutually exclusive.
I have just been noticing that volunteers, the former main source of
Bookshare books, have now become a minor source and that smaller share is
shrinking
even more. I just wonder when volunteers will become trivial. I can foresee
the point that volunteers will become so trivial that it would be hardly
worth continuing. I suppose that would be the point of obsolescence. And,
again, I am not necessarily saying that is good or bad. The fact that those old
talking books on vinyl disk are obsolete is not really a bad thing because
there are so many newer and better alternatives that do the job so much
better. On the other hand, by reading the BARD discussion list I know that
there
are a very few people who do still use those disks and that is just fine
too, but it is so few that it is certainly not worth producing more of them.
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I don't think that publishers, outsourcers and volunteers are mutually
exclusive.
The more books the Merrier.
Bob
“We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us
will live on in the future we make,”
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
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I think you are absolutely correct in your assessment of the difference
between volunteers and outsourcers. But that does not address the purpose of
having
volunteers for Bookshare in the first place. The purpose of volunteers is
to add to the collection. Now, what is the most efficient method of
accomplishing
that purpose, volunteers or other means? Note that I used the term other
means rather than outsourcers. That is because outsourcers are not the only
source
for the large number of books being added to the collection.
"Can a nation be
free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot." Vladimir Lenin
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I tend to think of volunteers as people who work on books for the love of
the book and outsources as people who work on books as a job.
As a volunteer who is not a member, what I do for Bookshare is a labor of
love, mostly the love of books, but there are many of you who I consider to
be
friends of mine and I would do books for you just because you are my
friend.
I think that is the difference between a volunteer and the outsourcer.
Volunteers put their hearts and souls into their work, in most cases. Since we
don't
know the outsourcers, we can't make the same assumption. To them it may be
just a job.
--
Jamie in Michigan
Currently Reading: The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
See everything I've read this year at:
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