[bookshare-discuss] Re: Bookshare demographics
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:02:17 -0500
It is my impression from being involved with Bookshare that it stays pretty
balanced. I have been here three over three years, back when we weren't
even live, smile, and back then it was dominated by romance and science
fiction and public domain materials. The nonfiction was very limited and
the kids books were really limited. I have seen it grow, and fill out. It
is like most children in how they grow up and then out, or vice versa,
smile.
So I don't think it will become vulcanized, we have enough volunteers to
keep a nice healthy balance.
And being once a member of that "educational system" I am glad Bookshare
doesn't follow the "guidelines" that NLS and RFB and D followed in picking
selections.
I think things will stay balanced, and they really are.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Advisory Council
www.guidedogs.com
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
-- Vance Havner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 1:54 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Bookshare demographics
Cindy,
Sure, I understand that there are kids out there that we certainly want to
reach, but I wonder if this is the critical mass of users, or a small
percentage?
It may be that kids are a small percentage, but represent a larger share of
the funding due to the institutional membership you referenced.
I really don't mean to snipe, I just want to see Bookshare serve its
clientel as best it can. If adult readers come to the site and see only
kids books being validated, this may drive away adult readers, and change
the nature of the site itself from being a resource for blind people of all
ages to an institutional appendage of the educational system.
Brian M.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 12:21 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Bookshare demographics
> Brian,
>
> I think a lot of schools and school districts have
> institutional memberships and need those books for
> their students. In any one year there may not be that
> many blind or otherwise inmpaired students but there
> are new kids all the time. Plus, blind parents have
> kids and want to be able to read to them, and, of
> course, parents both sighted and blind have blind
> children who would like to read on their own. The
> original teacher list that I got from bookshare when I
> first joined, (having in mind scanning them) had
> books from elementary school age all the way through
> high school age.
>
> Cindy
>
> --- Brian Miller <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Listers,
> > I wonder if there is any demographic information
> > about the universe of
> > bookshare users.
> > I ask, because I am thinking that perhaps to some
> > degree the books that are
> > submitted and validated might be prioritized
> > according to the user base.
> > It seems to me, for example, that we are submitting
> > and validating an aweful
> > lot of childrens books, and I can't think that there
> > are that many kids
> > using bookshare.
> > Yes, I know that sometimes it is fun for us adults
> > to read good childrens
> > lit, and that some kids books are among the best
> > titles in literature, but
> > it seems as though we have two or three kids books
> > for every other title.
> > I for one am beginning to feel that all these kids
> > books are crowding out
> > other adult titles that are languishing waiting for
> > validation.
> > Brian Miller
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Paula and James Muysenberg"
> > <outofsightlife@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Bksvol" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 4:50 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submitted
> >
> >
> > > The God You've Been Searching For, by Mac Brunson,
> > with foreword by David
> > > Jeremiah
> > > RTF
> > > 8 chapters, about 157 pages
> > > Already thoroughly edited, and all pages accounted
> > for.
> > >
> > > Paula
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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