[bksvol-discuss] Re: The Wish List and the DOE Grant, was Re: Re: What is the main c
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:08:04 -0800 (PST)
I have been updating the wish list, Roger, and quite a few books have been
added. IT does need to be rearranged, perhaps,to make scanning a bit easier,
but I'm also trying to proof books, so I'm putting off revising the wish ist
until I've finished 3 or 4 books. It is usable, and I explain at the top of it
how it is arranged: Section I is a list of authors by whom more than one book
is requested (some are fiction, some nonfiction, . Below that is a list of
nonfiction individual titles that have been requested. The third section is a
list of individual titles by various authors that have been requested. These
are mostly fiction. When I finish proofing a few books I'll start to
reorganize the Wish List and will put nonfiction and fiction books on separate
pages. The lists of individual titles are in alphabetical order by title.
Author and genre (in the case of fiction) are given for each book.
One last caveat; I do have to start writing Xmas letters to my old, faraway
friends, and my therapy is taking some time each day; it does seem to be
somewhat effective, though-
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
--- On Mon, 11/30/09, rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] The Wish List and the DOE Grant, was Re: Re: What
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> Date: Monday, November 30, 2009, 12:48 PM
> The wish list is indeed a
> bit large, but I am wondering about something. Back in, I
> think, February Carrie told us that in about a month she was
> going to start using grant money to buy educational books on
> the wish list and that if we had any particular desire for
> titles that would be considered educational we should add
> them to the wish list. At the time I could think of quite a
> few that I might want to add, but that was about the time
> that Cindy disappeared on us, so I refrained until we could
> find out if she was going to be available to update the list
> or if someone else could. When Cindy came back I still
> refrained because, not only was I uncertain about dumping a
> lot of work on her in her condition, but also because there
> was no further mention of the buy up of wish list books by
> Bookshare itself. Now pretty close to a year has passed.
> What ever happened to that plan?
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> Robert, as volunteers, we can submit almost any type of
> books we choose.Bookshare is doing children's books
> because that's what the grant moneycovers. They
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> will do adult educational books as well, but no romances
> orthings containing adult content. Bookshare funding is
> dependent upon howwell they follow the
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> goals of the grant by adding 100,000 educational booksover
> a five-year period. We're about to go into year 3 of the
> grant, so Ithink we'll see even more
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> books for kids in the future. That leaves us to scan and
> proofread books for pleasure. I'd like to recruitmore
> volunteers because I think we're making
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> only a tiny dent in the amountof books for adults that
> people say they want to read. Our wish list ishuge, and
> I'd really like to find a way that we can
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> get all of those booksadded to Bookshare. We would benefit
> from doubling our number of activevolunteers, especially if
> we could find some additional sighted
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> volunteerswho could help with books that blind people have
> trouble proofreading.Monica Willyard"The best way to
> predict the future is to create it." --
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