[bksvol-discuss] Re: Training
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:32:41 -0500
Lisa,
Is Jake gooing to fix his site like it was before, so we can see the English
and Spanish language books as far back as we want to go?
Sue S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Friendly" <lisaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Jake Brownell" <jakeb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 2:12 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Training
Wow. Thanks for your mail Amy. It helped me realize something important.
John Glass announced the Volunteer Manual to the lists, but you and others
may not have been subscribed (it was a couple of weeks ago) and the little
brainstorm is that we need to continue to publicize its availability.
I would really appreciate it if those on the list who send comments to new
volunteers include a link to the volunteer manual every few days, just to
make sure everyone who's a volunteer is aware of the resource.
Here is the link: http://www.bookshare.org/web/VMMain.html and the feedback
email is VMFeedback@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (shown in section 1.4).
Also, while I'm promoting things, the links to Friends of Bookshare are now
on the site, on the Bookshare home page and on the Volunteer Home Page (that
link is to the WishList - I just realized I need to add one to Friends of
Bookshare directly as well). Thanks to Jake Brownell, our wonderful Benetech
intern, for getting those links up there so quickly. And we'll be adding
links to Jake's Bookshare site as well. Wonderful resources from and for a
great community.
Lisa
> From: Amy Goldring Tajalli <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Organization: home
> Reply-To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:00:12 -0400
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Training
>
> Lisa,
>
> I would be more than happy to forward any comments you consider valuable
> to
> the mailing list for feeedback that's in the manual but I never saw the
> manual and did not know where to get it. If you tell me where to send the
> comments I will send them but I would appreciate knowing where I could get
> the manual as I have been going on the instinct and what I learned in my
> years of teaching writing and correcting students papers along with part
> time jobs proof-reading a variety of work. In the meantime I hope you are
> sleeping well and that I will, too, in about an hour. I look forward to
> hearing from you.
>
> Amy
> omsm
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lisa Friendly" <lisaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:29 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Training
>
>
>> Be sure to forward valuable comments like this to the mailing list for
>> feedback that's in the volunteer manual, so it all gets considered by the
>> authors. I've seen some great comments on this list.
>>
>> The mailing address is in the first section of the manual (if I had it in
>> front of me right now, I'd include it ...)
>>
>> Lazy Lisa (well, for tonight)
>>
>>
>>> From: Amy Goldring Tajalli <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Organization: home
>>> Reply-To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:52:11 -0400
>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Training
>>>
>>> One thing I am sure is not in manual on validating is spell check. I
>>> have
>>> been
>>> scanning and correcting my scans because a lot of the fiction I have
>>> scanned
>>> include dialect and/or dialogue which by normal standards is badly
>>> misspelled
>>> but is deliberate as with a character with a lisp where the author has
>>> replaced every "s" in his lines with "th" and some the words become
>>> very
>>> strange. Also, many writers don't always spell properly or combine
>>> words
>>> which are normally separated and the publishers and editors have chosen,
>>> rightly I think, to respect the authors words. So if you are not sure
>>> whether
>>> the word is misspelled or deliberate, and are not sighted and do not
>>> have
>>> a
>>> copy of the text, then assume that the scanner deliberately left it as
>>> it
>>> was
>>> and follow his/her example. That is why your choice of books to validate
>>> is so
>>> important but if you discover a book is not in your realm of experience
>>> no one
>>> will fault you for returning it for someone else to work on.
>>>
>>> Amy
>>> omsm
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