[bksvol-discuss] Re: New 3 hold maximum in check out queue

  • From: Chela Robles <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 08:03:21 -0700

I wholeheartedly agree with Ann here regarding specialty member volunteers and while I haven't commented on this subject, I've been reading through multiple threads from various list responding where necessary and it is necessary for me to respond now. I may be trilingual: English, Spanish and Portuguese from Brazil, but I too have to share a gold nugget with you. I remember I scanned a book, Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece by Ashley Kahn and Jimmy Cobb. There were major pagination issues and thank God for sighted people like Cindy, who helped me a lot with that book. If it weren't for her, that book no matter how many times I were to submit it without sighted assistance, it would have been declined. It is a team effort! Sorry if my English doesn't sound fully correct, still haven't had any coffee yet and am getting ready for church, but thought I'd comment here, since I've been kind of quiet lately and I didn't want to worry anyone for fear you might think I've disappeared or something...volunteer-wise, that is.


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On 7/29/2012 7:48 AM, Ann Parsons wrote:
Hi all,

Well, I did sort of mean expert in the sense that these volunteers have been volunteering for a while, and they have specialized skills because they are sighted and because of the length of their service. Perhaps expert isn't a good word, hmmm, maybe specialist, or skilled or advanced or something to indicate that these particular individuals have a skill set that is different from the norm. No reason why new volunteers couldn't attain advanced or specialized status. I would consider people like Chela specialized because they're bi-lingual. There are people who take on projects like text books with side-bars and footnotes and so on whom I'd consider specialists or advanced. I didn't mean this status to be a closed group at all. I meant it to be a status attainable by any volunteer who had the skill set necessary to qualify. Just being sighted wouldn't necessarily grant someone advanced status. they'd have to show competency beforebeing admitted to such a group.

This is the kind of skill set that should be publicized to scanners who scan difficult material or material in other languages. I remember releasing a book so that one of our Spanish readers could look at it. Half the book was in English and the other half was in Spanish. It needed a proofer with specialized skills in order to make sure that there were no scanos in the Spanish. Me, I don't speak much Spanish and I don't read it. So, I needed specialized help.

Ann P.

Original message:
Laura, I think the word "expert" was not really the word that was intended. I think the person really meant experienced in the kind of proofing book share requires, which is not quite the same as editing or proofing for a publishers. I, too, worked previously as a proofreader and as a copy editor, but for bookshare we can't correct errors that are not in the print book, and there are "navigational" aids" and certain other things we have to do mke books acceptable to the bookshare membership. Forgive the "slip of the tongue," so to speak.


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