[bksvol-discuss] Re: Review - PQ & Volunteer Books
- From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:37:52 -0700
Hi Lissi,
I ran your email personally over to Carrie because we have been in three
back-to-back meetings and now she is training a new volunteer. She never stops!
To answer your question about calculating the number of a particular
volunteers' books that have been displaced - yes, it is possible to do it from
this end but I noticed that several people seemed to be posting as if they were
keeping their own tallies. If those who have kept such lists were to send them
in they would get to decision-makers much faster.
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Review - PQ & Volunteer Books
Dear Scott and Booksharian Friends,
Scott, your summary is very helpful and I'll file it for future reference.
When several events impacting volunteers have occurred in a short period of
time, it's healthy and to be expected for traffic to be heavier on list.
People are questioning, making helpful suggestions, venting, commiserating,
congratulating, supporting and viewing the glass half empty or half full.
Better that a volunteer voice his or her intentions to stop volunteering for
Bookshare here than to pack up and disappear in silence. As long as they are
still reading list mail, they are taking time to rethink their decision and
reading reactions from others which may help them to resolve their concerns.
We've had relevant and irrelevant heavy list traffic here. Presently, with
so much going on, the heavy traffic is doing most of us good. It would be
unfortunate for a few complaints to stifle listers needs to contribute and
sound each other out about new developments. Yes, some posts have been
somewhat redundant, but look how many new ideas from staff and volunteers
have turned up lately. I think the overall process has been constructive and
even therapeutic.
Carrie's post moved me deeply. She's staff, now, but she took time to
remember how it feels to volunteer and to share her own feelings of loss
when a book she worked hard to add to the collection is removed. Essentially
she was saying, "I feel your pain, but my personal mission is still to add
books." She's a good model of someone who admits to disappointments but who
works on enthusiastically because she values the goal of building a library.
And, like most of us, she's a book lover.
A while back, bookshare's count of the books I've proofread over about 4 or
5 years was in the 570s. Then, when I checked the total again, it had
dropped to the 560s. Considering that I've been checking in very long books,
medium length books and relatively short upper elementary level books, some
with picture descriptions, as steadily as I can, I've been expecting my
total to find its way back to the 570s again. No such luck. It's stuck in
the 560s and I know realistically it could drop much lower. Still, I haven't
for a second given a thought to quitting because in my case, Proofreading is
still the best volunteering opportunity in town. Rough patches and changes
occur as you travel down any organization's path. All along everyone gets to
decide to stick with the program or take another direction.
Scott, I'd send you a list of or the number of my books that are replaced
every month, but I have no idea when it happens or to what book. I'm not
notified, and I don't have a master list to work from. Even if I did, I
don't know how to search for replaced books without taking ages and ages. Do
you or does anyone know how to quickly find out which of their books are
being replaced?
This list remains the water cooler where I come to complain, (a little) and,
hear about new developments, achievements, questions, answers and Bookshare
related ideas. It may not please everyone, but it serves many of us very
well.
Always with love,
Lissi
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