[bksvol-discuss] Re: A new project with which I'd appreciate volunteer help, please.
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 13:56:23 -0700
Hi Em!
Thank you very much! I've got you down as in charge of helping us update
the Braille Bug Special Collection!
Please contact me privately if you have any questions at all.
Thanks again for your help, and for the quick response!
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Em Rose
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 1:47 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A new project with which I'd appreciate
volunteer help, please.
Hi Mayrie,
I'll tackle the AFB Braille Bug Reading Club collection.
Em
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Courtney!
>
> Terrific! Thank you very much for such a quick response! You're the
> woman for Banned books then!
>
> Please contact me privately if you hit any snags that you need help
> conquering.
>
> Thanks again for taking on helping us update the Banned Books Special
> Collection!
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Courtney
> Stover
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 1:35 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A new project with which I'd appreciate
> volunteer help, please.
>
> Mayrie,
>
> I'd be thrilled to update the banned books collection!
> Courtney
>
> On 9/6/11, Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello Volunteers,
>>
>> I'm bringing to you a project that needs volunteers interested in
>> researching and searching. With the huge influx of new books over
>> the last couple of years, we at Bookshare would like to expand and
>> update some of our Special Collections. I'm going to provide a list
>> below of the Special Collections which could use your help, and broad
>> instructions about how to complete the project regarding each Special
>> Collection. Please let me know if you are interested in working on
>> any of
> these projects.
>> I'll note whether each project could benefit from the efforts of more
>> than one volunteer.
>>
>> Some of these projects are very much more time consuming and research
>> intensive than others.
>>
>> Please respond by replying publically to this note so that those of
>> you interested in possibly working together on projects can connect
>> and send me a single list of your combined work.
>> I'd appreciate it if these projects could be completed by the 7th of
>> October 2011.
>>
>> You can contact me privately if you need to at:
>>
>> mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx
>> or
>> mayrier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Thanks all of you for all of your dedication and hard work!
>>
>> I look forward to seeing what wonderful additions to the Special
>> Collections you guys find!
>>
>> See below for the list of projects available for your contributions!
>>
>> ----
>>
>>
>> Accessibility
>> Take a look at this Special Collection so that you will have an idea
>> what was intended to fit into it. Once you have an idea what topics
>> are relevant to the collection, please use the internet, and the
>> several search features available on the Bookshare web site to locate
>> books relevant to this collection that Bookshare has in the entire
>> collection, but that would benefit this Special Collection, and
>> aren't listed in the Special Collectionn. Please make me a list of
>> what you find including title, author, and the web address on the
>> Bookshare web site to the book information page of each book that
>> should be added to
> this collection.
>>
>> This is definitely a project that might feel more manageable if more
>> than one person shared the work. If more than one person expresses
>> interest, please contact each other privately and decide as a group
>> how you would like to divide the work, then send me your combined
>> results (without duplicates, please).
>>
>>
>> Beat the Recession
>> Take a look at this Special Collection so that you will have an idea
>> what was intended to fit into it. Once you have an idea what topics
>> are relevant to the collection, please use the internet, and the
>> several search features available on the Bookshare web site to locate
>> books relevant to this collection that Bookshare has in the entire
>> collection, but that would benefit this Special Collection, and
>> aren't listed in the Special Collectionn. Please make me a list of
>> what you find including title, author, and the web address on the
>> Bookshare web site to the book information page of each book that
>> should be added to
> this collection.
>>
>> This is definitely a project that might feel more manageable if more
>> than one person shared the work. If more than one person expresses
>> interest, please contact each other privately and decide as a group
>> how you would like to divide the work, then send me your combined
>> results (without duplicates, please).
>>
>> Pacific Island
>> Take a look at this Special Collection so that you will have an idea
>> what was intended to fit into it. Once you have an idea what topics
>> are relevant to the collection, please use the internet, and the
>> several search features available on the Bookshare web site to locate
>> books relevant to this collection that Bookshare has in the entire
>> collection, but that would benefit this Special Collection, and
>> aren't listed in the Special Collectionn. Please make me a list of
>> what you find including title, author, and the web address on the
>> Bookshare web site to the book information page of each book that
>> should be added to
> this collection.
>>
>> This is definitely a project that might feel more manageable if more
>> than one person shared the work. If more than one person expresses
>> interest, please contact each other privately and decide as a group
>> how you would like to divide the work, then send me your combined
>> results (without duplicates, please).
>>
>> Career Resources
>> Take a look at this Special Collection so that you will have an idea
>> what was intended to fit into it. Once you have an idea what topics
>> are relevant to the collection, please use the internet, and the
>> several search features available on the Bookshare web site to locate
>> books relevant to this collection that Bookshare has in the entire
>> collection, but that would benefit this Special Collection, and
>> aren't listed in the Special Collectionn. Please make me a list of
>> what you find including title, author, and the web address on the
>> Bookshare web site to the book information page of each book that
>> should be added to
> this collection.
>>
>> This is definitely a project that might feel more manageable if more
>> than one person shared the work. If more than one person expresses
>> interest, please contact each other privately and decide as a group
>> how you would like to divide the work, then send me your combined
>> results (without duplicates, please).
>>
>> Update the Banned Books to the 2000-2009 (currently 1990-2000).
>> http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/cha
>> l
>> lenged
>> bydecade/2000_2009/index.cfm
>> This is a one-person project. I'd like the volunteer who takes it on
>> to go to the provided link, and make a list of books listed there
>> that Bookshare has and provide the web address for each book in the
>> Bookshare collection, please. Also, please keep a separate list of
>> any that Bookshare doesn't have so that we can consider acquiring them.
>>
>> AFB Braille Bug Reading Club Favorites (I have no idea if the AFB
>> site is
>> current)
>> http://www.afb.org/braillebug/rcfavorites.asp
>> This is another single-person project, I think. The link provided
>> here has several offshoot links to books in the Braille Reading Bug
>> program. Please check the Special Collection, and the link I've
>> provided. Give me a list of titles, authors, and web addresses of
>> books that Bookshare has that are not part of the Special Collection,
>> and a list of books by title and author of any books listed on the
>> AFB site that Bookshare doesn't have so that we can consider
>> acquiring them
> for the Bookshare collection.
>>
>>
>> Thanks very much for any help you all would like to offer!
>>
>> Mayrie
>>
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