[bksvol-discuss] is there a need for volunteers?
- From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 04:37:13 -0500
I've been away from my email for a couple of days and had 287 messages from
this group alone. Needless to say, this is an active and vibrant list.
Some time ago Roger asked the question are volunteers necessary (or something
like this).
My answer is a definite "yes". Whereas publishers send bookshare newer books,
and outsourcers send books that bookshare think others will read, we volunteers
send the books we would like to read, or have read.
Mayrie mentioned Caddy Woodlawn and Baby island. These two books were read to
me as a third grader, and I doubt they've lost any of their appeal.
I'm sort of going against the grain here, I'm a male while most of the active
people on this list seem to be female, I'm older than many, so my tastes may
run a bit different than others. If it were left to me, I'd scan only science
fiction and mysteries. The thing is, if I were more ambitious, I could do just
that and no one would complain.
So, we volunteers are providing books that we like, and we hope others will
like, and therefore, there will always be a need for volunteers to balance out
the collection.
Bob
"We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will
live on in the future we make,"
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
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From: Mayrie ReNae
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 11:13 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: books similar to little house in bookshare
collection
Hi Try this author and these books:
There is a book missing from the Caddie Woodlawn series called Magical
Mellons. I'll see if I can find it somewhere and scan it.
Brink, Carol Ryrie
Baby Island by Brink, Carol Ryrie
Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Mary Wallace and her ten-year-old sister Jean
survive the wreck of an ocean liner on its way to Australia and manage to make
it to a seemingly deserted island in a lifeboat with four babies.
Caddie Woodlawn by Brink, Carol Ryrie
Synopsis: The adventures of a pioneer girl growing up in Wisconsin in the
mid-nineteenth century
Copyright Date: 1935
Caddie Woodlawn's Family by Brink, Carol Ryrie
Synopsis: Fourteen tales relating the further adventures of ten-year-old
Caddie and her six siblings living on the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860s.
Copyright Date: 1990
Louly by Brink, Carol Ryrie
Synopsis: In 1908 in Idaho fifteen-year-old Louly, left in charge during her
parent's absence, has an adventurous summer with her brother, sister, and her
two girlfriends.
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] books similar to little house in bookshare
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Hi, there are books by Rebecca Caudill that are a lot like little house
books. There are books also such as little house by boston bay, Brookfield
days, Old town in the green groves, The road to Roxbury and many others by
other authors that tell about Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother and grandmother
when they were girls. Bookshare and NLS have some but not all of these books.
Some of them were designed for small children but they are really neat books to
learn how these people lived and what they did for fun and all this stuff.
Hope this helps. Have a blessed day.
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