Hi, Mayrie. No harm done. <smile> Really, I've grown up with a progressive hearing impairment, so I started out being able
to handle talking books. That's the only reason I would have thought of it. I like the idea of having a small tape player
and being able to use talking books. They're certainly more portable than hardcopy braille, so if that were an option for
me, I'd probably still use talking books. I don't think we expect everyone to think of everything. I think most of us don't
often think about the people who might be members of Bookshare who aren't blind, just because we think the majority of the
members are visually impaired, and they might be, but anyone with any form of a print handicap could be a member. It's
difficult to think of all of those needs because we don't understand them. Take care.
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Mayrie ReNae wrote:
Hi Monica,
I never thought of that. Boy, I feel insufferably shortsighted. Thank you so much for pointing this out to me. It makes a wealth of difference in my perspective. I'm thinking that I need to adopt the practise of putting up whatever I have scanned, if I liked it. If I was interested enough to acquire the book, someone else may be just as interested in reading it. Someone else will, I'm sure. After all, my goal is to help. I was just incredibly shortsighted about the population I'm trying to assist. Thanks so much for the insight.
Peace,
MayrieAt 08:46 PM 9/13/2006, you wrote:Hi, Mayrie. You're right that Bookshare and NLS share qualification criteria. However, we have several patrons who cannot hear and thus read Braille only. That's why some of us scan the more popular books anyway. I started out where you're coming from. It wasn't until I'd been around for awhile that I realized how many blind people also have a hearing impairment. The number is much higher than I ever would have guessed. They can't use cassettes, and NLS still produces relatively few titles in Braille. Our Julie M gently prodded me to imagine what my life would be like in her shoes, and I didn't like the picture she painted. Because of what I've learned, I've changed my policy on what I'm willing to scan. I still prefer the NLS recordings myself, but I can see how limited life would be for me if I couldn't hear well. So if you see us duplicating content, that's a big reason why. (smile)
Monica Willyard
On Wednesday 9/13/2006 10:00 PM, you wrote:Hi Shayla,
If it matters, the last three books that you listed are available on cassette from NLS. I personally try not to duplicate books that NLS already has as anyone eligible for BookShare is also eligible to receive books through NLS. Let me know if you really want me to scan those anyway. If it's really important to you or to anyone else, I'd be happy to scan those books. Otherwise, I'd rather grow the collection with books not available to patrons anywhere else.
Peace, Mayrie
At 05:15 PM 9/13/2006, you wrote:Hi all,
On a friend's recommendation, I've been reading the Kate Shugak mystery series by Dana Stabenow, ten of which we have on Bookshare (the first is A Cold Day for Murder). The books are about -- well, I'll let the author's website explain it.
"Kate Shugak is an Aleut who lives on a 160-acre homestead in a generic national Park in Alaska. Her roommate is a half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt.
Her nearest neighbors are a bull moose and a grizzly sow. Farther off are dog mushers, miners, hunters, trappers, fishermen, bush pilots, pipeline workers,
Park rats and Park rangers, other Aleuts, Athabascans, a few Tlingits and the residents of Niniltna, a village perched on the edge of the Kanuyaq River,
a 600-mile long, salmon-rich tributary that winds through the Park to Prince William Sound."
Oh, and she also solves crime.
Anyway, like I said, Bookshare has ten of these books, which means we're missing four. They are:
3. Dead in the Water 8. Killing Grounds 11. The Singing of the Dead 12. A Fine and Bitter Snow
If anyone has access to these books and is willing to scan them, I'd really appreciate it -- they're fun but sober, clever but sweet, and I'm really enjoying them.
Shayla
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