[bksvol-discuss] Re: New 3 hold maximum in check out queue
- From: Regina Alvarado <reggie.alvarado@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 11:37:16 -0400
Ann:
I totally agree. The folks who are doing specialized books are worth their
weight in gold. They should be referred when a book is just plain difficult
for a blind volunteer to do without sighted help.
Thinking a lot. I will be at the meeting, although I remain fairly quiet so
you may not know I am there. However, I believe it is not just "new"
volunteers. The problem is kinds of books. Wondering if scanners could do
one book for their preferred proofer and then the next book for the list in
general. Does anyone think that might work? Off to read now! Sure wishing I
had a good area for scanning as I am wishing to scan just because we need
scanners!
Reggie
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: New 3 hold maximum in check out queue
Hi all,
Well, I did sort of mean expert in the sense that these volunteers
have been volunteering for a while, and they have specialized skills
because they are sighted and because of the length of their service.
Perhaps expert isn't a good word, hmmm, maybe specialist, or skilled or
advanced or something to indicate that these particular individuals
have a skill set that is different from the norm. No reason why new
volunteers couldn't attain advanced or specialized status. I would
consider people like Chela specialized because they're bi-lingual.
There are people who take on projects like text books with side-bars
and footnotes and so on whom I'd consider specialists or advanced. I
didn't mean this status to be a closed group at all. I meant it to be
a status attainable by any volunteer who had the skill set necessary to
qualify. Just being sighted wouldn't necessarily grant someone
advanced status. they'd have to show competency beforebeing admitted
to such a group.
This is the kind of skill set that should be publicized to scanners who
scan difficult material or material in other languages. I remember
releasing a book so that one of our Spanish readers could look at it.
Half the book was in English and the other half was in Spanish. It
needed a proofer with specialized skills in order to make sure that
there were no scanos in the Spanish. Me, I don't speak much Spanish
and I don't read it. So, I needed specialized help.
Ann P.
Original message:
> Laura, I think the word "expert" was not really the word that was
> intended. I think the person really meant experienced in the kind of
> proofing book share requires, which is not quite the same as editing or
> proofing for a publishers. I, too, worked previously as a proofreader
> and as a copy editor, but for bookshare we can't correct errors that
> are not in the print book, and there are "navigational" aids" and
> certain other things we have to do mke books acceptable to the
> bookshare membership. Forgive the "slip of the tongue," so to speak.
--
Ann K. Parsons
Portal Tutoring
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