[duxuser] Re: question for braille transcribers
- From: "Angel" <Angel238@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:37:15 -0500
I just wanted to chime in here to say my mother was a transcriber for the
Library of Congress from 1955 to maybe 1963. She use to Braille with a
slate and stylus before we got a Perkins Brailler. I think she got that
Brailler as much for her convenience as for me to do my school work. She
would proof read her books prior to sending them to the proof readers. She
got a trophy from the American Red Cross for brailing 5 perfect volumes.
Wasn't that amazing? She had many different devices to perform erasures to
fool the proof readers. When she Brailed with a slate and stylus, she would
put shellac on the back of the individual pages to prevent the dots from
being crushed. I wanted to become a proof reader once, and called the
Library of Congress to find the materials I would need and mentioned her
name. The gentleman with whom I spoke said he had heard her name and that
was about 40 years after she stopped transcribing.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandra McCoy" <smccoy67@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 10:20 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: question for braille transcribers
Hi Leslie,
I am very impressed with those that got a 92 on their manuscripts. I
got an 82 but I passed. I transcribed Touching The Void which was about a
mountain climbing accident. My advice is be careful what book you pick.
Mine had a lot of foreign names and technical words. It was a good
learning experience, but you really don't need that when trying to get
certified. Like the two other responses, I missed the contraction for
"right" in variations of fright and a couple st's. I also messed up with
spaces around a dash. Proofread over and over and over and
over........One thing that helped me was to make an extra copy my book and
mark all the contractions in red pen before I ever started transcribing in
Perky Duck. I read through it several times, always catching ones I
missed. Even so, I still missed those few with "right" and "st".
Sandy
From: "Leslie Hamric" <leslie.hamric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [duxuser] question for braille transcribers
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:38:47 -0600
Hello list. I'm about to start working on my 35 page manuscript for NLS
certification as a literary braille transcriber. For those of you who
are transcribers, what books did you used? Any suggestions would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Leslie Hamric
Resource Production/Braille Transcriber
Illinois Instructional Materials Center
The Chicago Lighthouse
1850 West Roosevelt Road
Chicago, IL 60608-1228
(312) 997-3699 ext. 3352 Phone
(312) 997-1687 Fax
leslie.hamric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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