[bksvol-discuss] Re: Romances and grants

  • From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:33:54 -0500

Hi Pavi,

Is anything in the works to correct the listing of authors that is so messed 
up, giving Jr as a last name, or the last part of a two-part name as the 
last name?  I know kids well enough to know that some students, and adults 
as well, woould laugh at the way some of them are listed in the library.

Sue S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Pavi Mehta
To: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx ; bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Bookshare.org Volunteers
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 2:24 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Romances and grants


Hi Roger and All,



Yes, erotica and romance were just used as examples of what the grant wouldn't 
cover. Our librarian has worked really hard to come up with a clear 
definition of what qualifies as educational that is currently being reviewed 
by the management as well as the grant administrators. When we have the 
final green signal on it, we will be sure to include it both in the manual 
as well as send it out to the volunteer community. We're looking forward to 
having those guidelines as well!



All good things,

Pavi





From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx [mailto:Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 8:35 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: [bksvol-discuss] Romances and grants



It has nothing to do with sex. The grant is specifically for books of an 
educational purpose and romances do not qualify. At one point Carrie posted 
a message on list in which she said something to that effect. It seemed 
clear to me that she was just using romances and erotica as examples of what 
the grant would not cover. It certainly seems to me that if romance and 
erotica do not qualify then a lot more popular fiction would not either. I 
suspect, that if Lissi was told in a private message that anything but 
romance and erotica qualifies as educational, she must have misunderstood. 
It would be good to get a clarification of what qualifies as educational for 
the purposes of the grant, so I am copying this email to 
volunteer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Lissi,

I don't understand , why would Romances not be covered?  I love romances and 
lots of other women do too.  If it covers SCI-FI and other fiction books 
then
why would it not cover romance?  If it is the sex in romances they should 
read some SCI-FI and mystery books, because sex is in lots of other books 
too.

I scan Harlequin books and other romance all the time so I can submit them 
if there are proofreaders for them.  I want to get the rest of Catherine 
Coulter
books and scan them too.

Why wont Bookshare do a training class for scanners and proofreaders like 
they do for Victor Reader and Read Out Loud?  The manual does not give much 
info
on what is the best fonts, how to do the best headers and how the auto 
computers work with the scan programs.  I want the books I submit to sail 
through
without problems and would take the time to fix them so they would.

I set my OCR to English UK and it is doing great now and I'm scanning 50 
pages a day.  I hope to get faster as I learn.  Almost every romances is in 
UK
English not American.

 I have a question.  On the book I submitted.  Radha Ayalasomayajul 
Checkout the book and it says:  Active artifact id 421897 (RFT)

Then it say Radha Ayalasomayajula Checkout Active artifact id 421898 (Daisy)

I understand the first Radha Ayalasomayajul is proofing my rft file of the 
book.  But the second part does it mean she is turning it into a Daisy book 
so
it can be checked out?  Does she work for Bookshare?  I'm just trying to 
understand the steps from my rft book file to a book that can be checked out 
at
Bookshare.

Tammy


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