[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: someone who appreciates us and new blog site
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 21:54:27 -0400
Hi Cindy,
That is really great that he wrote back to you, and gave you the description of
the photo.
I am really excited to see this book in the collection, it was a bear to scan
and I can imagine a bear to proof, smile.
Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
and Ludden Black Labrador Guide Dog
The ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are
all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not
to one particular color or border. -Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the
International Atomic Energy Agency (b. 1942)
----- Original Message -----
From: Cindy
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 9:33 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: someone who appreciates us and new blog site
Let me discuss things in reverse order. smile
The new features of bookshare have me thoroughly confused. I suppose
the proper place for what I'm about to share with you belongs on the new blog,
but I don't know how to sign up for it or post to it; besides, I don't think I
want to sign up for it; already I spend too much time reading and occasionally
answering list posts. I suppose, however, that if people posted on the blog,
there would be fewer OT posts on the email lists, and so less to read--unless
one subscribed to the blog--grin.
I have to share this with all of you. Some people are *so* nice and go
the extra mile.
I am proofreading Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of
Duty.
The text is interesting, and a pleasure to read. However, there are a
lot of photographs, both snapshots of the heroes when they were younger and in
the service, and full-page photographs of the Medal-of-Honor winners taken for
the book. The photographer of the latter is Nick Del Calzo;(he has a web page
and it lists places where his photographs can be seen and also books for which
he has supplied photographs.
I have been doing my best to describe for you readers the photographs.
In some cases I recognize or can guess at the location in which the subject was
photographed. However, yesterday I was stumped. The statue has too many figures
on it for me to attempt to describe it, and I could not find it by googling, so
I took a chance and wrote to Mr. Del Calzo, identifying myself as a volunteer
for bookshare.org and asking him if he would please be kind enough to identify
the monument for me.
When I opened my email l today, there was his reply. He had taken the
trouble to write to the subject himself,Lieutenant Harold Fritz, to ask him,
and Lt. Fritz. replied to him, and the answer was forwarded to me. Mr. DelCalZo
also said that he appreciated the work we volunteers do (I had explained that
volunteers scan and proofread print books to add to the bookshare collection
so that blind and others with disabilities who can't read books the way sighted
people can can have access to them)
Now, if you download and read Medal of Honor (when I finally finish
proofing it),
you'll see that the man on p. 100 is standing in front ofthe 100-year
old-soldiers and sailors monument located in the Peoria County Courthouse
square,Peoria, Illinois. It represents/honors those Peoria area men and women
who served in the civil war.
I suspected that the statue was somewhere in Illinois, since that's
where Lt. Fritz is living, but I gave up searching for war memorials in
Illinois. If you live in Peoria, you can visit it. Otherwise, perhaps you can
find a photo online and can find someone who is sighted to describe it to
you.Describing something orally is a alot easier than writing the description;
I do not do that well, partly because I do not have the patience to read over
and correct the grammatical structure of what I have writen.
If anyone is willing to read my descriptions and edit/rewrite them,
when the book is in the collection, I'll send the pages and will ask Carrie to
give you the $2.50 credit for proofreading. Since they are not copyrighted,
there should be no problem.
Cindy
Cindy
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and
books-being-scanned list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
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