The time is just about here, Kim. As I pointed out once before, what with Bookshare, Gutenberg, Archive.org and other sources, I now have access, at least easier access, to more books than I ever had access to when I was sighted.
_ _ _"Socialism can be built only by free men and women working together to lay the foundations for a new society and transforming themselves in the process." - Ernesto "Che" Guevara
The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 2:19 AMSubject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: "OT" Introductions to Bookshare Summer In-House Volunteers
Hi, Scott, thanks for sending volunteer profiles. Please tell Mr. Fong thatI hope he enjoys himself at Bookshare. I think it will be a great day whenblind folks like me can read everything that sighted folks can (I mean therewouldn't be such a fight to read what is available. I'm all for accessibility without borders and I wish friends in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Britain, and points everywhere, could have Bookshare and access to whatever can be made readable.). Regards, Kim Friedman. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Rains Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 10:09 AM To: Scott Rains; bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: "OT" Introductions to Bookshare Summer In-House Volunteers Bookshare volunteers, As I promised yesterday here is the first of several in-house Bookshare summer volunteers introducing themselves to you. Scott Rains Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department My name is James Fong and I am an in-house volunteer. I have lived in the Bay Area for a long time...What piqued my interest in becoming a volunteer with Bookshare is its worldwide outreach to the visually impaired community. Before coming to Bookshare, I had extensiveexperience in dealing with the deaf community, both as a volunteer and as a paid employee. Through this experience I was given the opportunity to mentora young deaf child. I was able to be a part of his life for 12 years. In addition, I was able to do some sign language interpretation for a localchurch's musical and drama productions twice a year, for a number of years.Before I decided to become a volunteer here at Bookshare, I had checked outthe Benetech website because I was in the process of lookin' for another job. What I had read on the Bentech website and more specifically under Bookshare, it seemed like an interesting place to become more involve in helping people. I also have an interest in reaching out to the world wide community. While in high school and in college I took a few classes in Spanish as well as a class in German. In recent years, I have also taken adeeper interest in learning more about the culture that I was born into andlearning to appreciate it even more. While I have been volunteering here at Bookshare, I have learned to appreciate more of what you guys are doing to allow the visually impaired community to read books. Since I have been mainly scanning book here on site, I have taken the opportunity to learn more about how the visuallyimpaired person actually read books. I had spoken with a Bookshare employee recently. I was able to get a better idea of how the employee was able to dohis work as well as seeing for myself on how a visually impaired personwould read a book .Another benefit that I had received from volunteering wasa better appreciation about reading in general. It is amazing stuff. ________________________________________ From: Scott Rains Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 10:29 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Belated Introductions to Bookshare Summer In-House Volunteers Volunteers, Sometimes the obvious just slips right past me! For the past month a steady flow of summer volunteers have contactedBookshare. Several have started to come in regularly. In fact, on Wednesdayswe have had up to eight scheduled (although not quite that many computer available for them. smile ) I have asked some of our regular summer in-house volunteers to write up a quick note about themselves and their tasks. Some chop & scan textbooks.Some file or recycle books off to Africa or a landfill. Some write synopses. Others quality-check books and metadata on PQ and vendor submissions. All ofthem contribute firsthand descriptions of their tasks to me for incorporation into training materials for future volunteers.I'll share notes from these in-house volunteers here on the list as "OT" asthey come in. These volunteers won't become list members while workingin-house as their tasks are somewhat different than what off-site volunteersdo but some have indicated a desire to continue as scanners an proofers after their time here as well so over time you will get to know them too. Volunteers are definitely not going out of fashion at Bookshare. Your workis still at the heart of growing the Bookshare collection and fulfilling themission of getting high-quality books out to print-disabled readers in a timely way. 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