[bksvol-discuss] Re: Teacher Request List
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:32:52 -0800 (PST)
Great.If anyone else wants the list, just let me know
and I'll send it. Marissa, I think Isent it to you a
long time ago, but that was before the request list
was inadvertently deleted. If you want it again, let
me know. In the meantime I'll delete the ones that I
know for sure are already in the collection.
Cindy
--- "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I got it crisp and clear.
>
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
> juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
> Graduate Advisory Council
> www.guidedogs.com
>
> The vision must be followed by the venture. It is
> not enough to
> stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
>
> -- Vance Havner
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 7:26 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Teacher Request List
>
>
> Shelley,
>
> I sent you, among others, the teacher request list
> that Tami sent me. I do have the original list from
> bookshare -- probably the one to which Carrie
> referred. I started checking it against the
> collection
> to see what's been filled, but that takes a long
> time
> and I got side-tracked. I will send it to you as an
> attachment if you like, and you can see if ones
> you're
> interested in are in the collection yet. Some are
> books for high school students. some are plays,
> which
> we're not supposed to scan.
>
> Now -- it's an excel file. I've never attached an
> excel file and am not sure how. I'll try, and if you
> don't get it, please let me know here and maybe
> someone can tell me how to do it.
>
> Cindy
>
>
> -- Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Shelley,
> >
> > I can't find my kiddie book list (I got it 2 years
> > ago, and who knows where it went!), but there are
> > always the books on the Bookshare fair list, the
> > Pulitzer Prize winners, the Caldecott winners,
> etc,
> > etc. There are a lot of children's books series,
> > like the Magic School Bus, the Baby-sitter's Club,
> > Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Scooby-do, and the
> > Animorphs, that have holes in the series. Maybe
> you
> > could fill in some of the missing books in some of
> > the children's series? I'll ask Marissa if she
> has
> > a copy of the kiddie list from 2 years ago, when I
> > go into the office.
> >
> > Thanks for doing so much volunteering work!
> Carrie
> >
> > "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > you know, I have to agree with Bob, I am also
> > unemployed and have a lot of
> > time on my hands, and obviously like working for
> > bookshare. I can't do the
> > "best sellers" or the "books of the month" but can
> > do other things to help
> > out the organization.
> >
> > I am free till September, when I will be back in
> > school. But would love to
> > help.
> > Kerry, you guys wouldn't have the rest of the list
> > of "kids books" that
> > were requested by the grant. Even though the grant
> > is up, perhaps we could
> > still help fill in the gap. I have a rather
> > progressive children's library
> > so...
> >
> > And if anyone has other areas that need attention
> in
> > the collection that I
> > can find material to fill.
> >
> > I love reading the animal books and the kids
> novels,
> > so am doing a lot of
> > those right now, but we have an enormous sports
> > section, large psychology,
> > history and fiction section at our library.
> >
> > Unfortunately most if not all of the "no book left
> > behinds" aren't available
> > from my library.
> >
> >
> > Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
> > juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
> > Graduate Advisory Council
> > www.guidedogs.com
> >
> > The vision must be followed by the venture. It is
> > not enough to
> > stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
> >
> > -- Vance Havner
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "robert tweedy"
> > To:
> > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 11:20 AM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: more book sale finds
> >
> >
> > How about us helping out on aproving a book and
> > saying it is okay to put it
> > on the new page. Pick out the ones that want to go
> > by the guidelines of
> > bookshare and that the staff would have more time
> to
> > try to get grants and
> > such. I for one am not working and have a lot of
> > time on my hands and I
> > think there might be a few of us like myself that
> > can help out a lot more. I
> > know we can't devote all our free time to
> bookshare
> > but there should be a
> > way we can help out more if we want. In the survey
> > that was done earlier
> > this year or it could've been last year, what did
> > readers want in the
> > collection? I am submitting and aproving books
> that
> > can't be found in the
> > NLS but they aren't the least of my favorites and
> > could care less but I want
> > bookshare better than any other source for blind
> > people to find things to
> > read and if we can get reference books and text
> > books boy what a great thing
> > for bookshare. I remember back in the 70's and
> 80's
> > it was hard to get books
> > for cvollege and the SRS or whoever had to hire
> > readers, don't know if that
> > has changed over the years or not but I heard a
> lot
> > of "I wish there was a
> > place to get books." Has this changed over the
> years
> > or not, it sounds like
> > there is a lot going on right now.----- Original
> > Message -----
> > From: Carrie Karnos
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 12:10 AM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: more book sale finds
> >
> >
> > Yes, there are several projects in the works.
> > Unfortunately the books
> > that will bring in grant money (so Bookshare can
> > stay afloat) are not the
> > same books that most members want to read (sci fi,
> > mysteries, romance and
> > some other category that I've forgotten - Westerns
> > maybe?). So the staff
> > does a juggling act, trying to keep everyone happy
> -
> > investors, members,
> > volunteers. It's a bit rough on the staff members,
> > since they WANT to make
> > everyone supremely happy but they know they can't.
> I
> > try to put the books I
> > find (based on what everyone tells me in the
> > discussion group) into the
> > submission queue as fast as I can, but my time is
> > limited too. We really do
> > try, we really really do...
> >
> > Thanks! Carrie
> >
> > siss52 wrote:
> >
> > It seems to me that they definnitely need more
> staff
> > to approve books..
> > One person can only do so much, and yet Marissa
> > keeps dreaming up more
> > projects and bringing in more books, even though
> she
> > tells us they are
> > working on a bunch of donated books. It seems the
> > gardening books should
> > get some priority as well as cookbooks.
> >
> > Sue S.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Carrie Karnos
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 11:20 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: more book sale finds
> >
> >
> > Glad I can help!
> >
> > One word of caution: Marissa brought in 5 bags of
> > books on Thursday, and
> > I got 2 more bags of books this weekend, so it'll
> > take a while for all of
> > the books (probably 80-100) to move thru the
> queue.
> > Don't hold your breath
> > waiting for them! I hope we can streamline the
> > process, and get them
> > submitted sooner, but you know how it goes...
> >
> > Carrie
> >
> > "Shelley L. Rhodes" wrote:
> > Kerry, these are wonderful. i can't wait to read
> the
> > "I hate cookbook"
> > and
> > the one on the senses.
> >
> >
> > Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
> > juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
> > Graduate Advisory Council
> > www.guidedogs.com
> >
> > The vision must be followed by the venture. It is
> > not enough to
> > stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
> >
> > -- Vance Havner
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Carrie Karnos"
> > To: "Bookshare Vol Group"
> > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 10:13 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] more book sale finds
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I went to the book sale again today and came away
> > with:
> >
> > Sense and Nonsense: A Study in Human Communication
> > by Alfred
> > Fleischman
> > To Be Young, Gifted and Black: An Informal
> > Autobiography of Lorraine
> > Hansberry
> > On Being Black: Writings by Afro-Americans from
> > Frederick Douglass to
> > the
> > Present
> > The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
> > Victory by Joseph Conrad
> > The I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken
> > Take Care of Your Dog with the Home Vet Handbook
> > 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth
> > 30 Simple Energy Things You Can Do to Save the
> Earth
> > Flowering Succulents by Gordon Rowley
> > The Clear and Simple Gardening Guide by DX Fenten
> > The Wonderful World of Books by Alfred Stefferud
> > (editor)
> > Grave Mistake by Ngaio Marsh
> > The Killing Man by Mickey Spillane
> > The Big Knockover by Dashiell Hammett
> > An Introduction to Literature and the Fine Arts by
> > the Editors at
> > Michigan
> > State College Press
> > Planning Art Education in the Middle/Secondary
> > Schools of Ohio
> > Understanding the Arts by Helen Gardner
> > A Short Guide to Writing about Art by Sylvan
> Barnet
> > Artists at Work by Bernard Chaet
> > From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art History by
> > James Smith Pierce
> > The Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approach by Ernst
> > Fischer
> >
> > There were probably 100 gardening books at the
> book
> > sale, lots of them
> > being
> > Sunset Publishing (which is a few miles from the
> > Bookshare office).
> > What
> > type of gardening books do people want? I can pick
> > some up during next
> > month's book sale.
> >
> > Carrie
> >
> >
> >
> >
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