[bksvol-discuss] Re: Request: Write Your Bookshare Memoir...
- From: Chela Robles <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:58:40 -0700
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"To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you
forever. It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be
sophisticated, but when you get the two of them together in a way
people can relate to, then I think you're on to something. You want
the sophistication to lie in the purity of the sound, the beauty of
the arrangements, and the quality of the performances."-Trumpeter
Chris Botti
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On 7/15/2010 11:56 AM, robert tweedy wrote:
Scott where do we send to? Membership@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or
support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Rains" <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:52 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Request: Write Your Bookshare Memoir...
... or maybe just the abridged version of your memoir for now.
We are writing new material supplemental for volunteers 1that is
supplemental to the online manual. Right now we are working on
collecting some volunteer biographies to give new volunteers a glimpse
of life inside Bookshare. You have seen a sneak preview in the bios of
in-house volunteers I have posted this week. Below are two more.
We are looking for short essays that are about midway between the
length of the two below and that engage readers by address the
following three topics:
1) A bit about yourself and why you are at Bookshare
2) The tasks you have done at Bookshare
3) A little about what you feel you have contributed or learned
Not all submissions will be included in this document for new
volunteers but others inside Bookshare who run the website, blog,
Twitter and Facebook pages want a chance to give you well-deserved
recognition also.
Thanks for your help.
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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First Bio:
Hi, my name is Shaila Jain and am a sophomore at Monta Vista High
School in Cupertino. I am volunteering at Bookshare to help visually
impaired people gain easy access to books. I am helping Bookshare to
organize their library, write synopsis, backlogging, and to file
paperwork. I have learned how you take a book, cut the spine off, and
scan it onto the computer. Then the scanned copy is uploaded onto the
Bookshare website. Bookshare has provided me a great learning
experience and I want to continue to volunteer and learn more.
Second Bio:
My name is Mark Lind-Hanson and I have been a Bookshare volunteer for
about a month.
I have a background as a musician, artist and writer, and also ten
years of experience working in nonprofit administration. I came to
Booksahare because the
organization seems to be filling a very important need in the
community, and as someone who has a love for books, the organization’s
mission to bring more books to the attention of print-disabled
persons is highly appealing to my own sense of social purpose.
Currently I work part-time for Book Buyers, a used bookstore in
Mountain View, and on one day a week I contribute some time to Bookshare.
What I have been doing has been editing metadata for books submitted
for approval.
A book’s metadata includes the title, author name, ISBN number,
copyright date and copyright holder, as well as a short an a long
synopsis. Often these are provided by publishers as scanned data, and
as scanned data, often there are numerous errors- “scannos”- to be
corrected, so that persons reading them will be able to make complete
sense of the information. For instance, a sentence in quotations will
often include run-on words, hyphen or emdash errors, and spacing
problems. These all need to be cleaned up, as well, the short synopses
are often cut off due to character length. My work includes fitting as
much as I can into the short synopses about the book without leaving
it incomprehensible, as well as editing the long synopses (often
including the very same errors, for the short synopsis is most often
just a reprise of the first sentence or two of the long one). I also
check whether the book is considered “adult content” or not, and what
categories (up to four) that it ma
y belong in. This is where my work as a bookstore shelver has come in
very handy.
Prior to working for Bookshare, as well as the Mountain View
bookstore, I worked for five years as Volunteer and Finance Assistant
for the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. My many years of
service there I feel has well prepared me for a life working with
books, and I do hope to learn an awful lot more about electronic
books, how they are formatted, and also, Bookshares streams of
distribution.
I find this a very exciting opportunity for me in terms of personal
and career growth, and am very honored to be able to serve the
community in this manner. The more books that are made available to
print disabled persons, the further their own personal horizons may be
stretched. This cannot but help in a very positive fashion with the
difficulties faced each day in the larger world. To have books at your
disposal at the click of a mouse is truly an improvement over days of
yore.
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