[bksvol-discuss] Re: book requests
- From: "Monica Cortada" <mcortada@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 08:22:48 -0400
There's the issue of carrying around another a special (and expensive)
portable tape player. Bookshare files converted to audio can be loaded onto
any MP3 player or burned to an ordinary CD. And there's speed. Bookshare
files are instantly available to a student in a hurry. Tapes have to be
mailed.
M M (Monica in Maryland, <grin>)
Thanks, Monica. <smile> Of course, everyone needs to choose for themselves
what they want to work on, and far be it from me to say they're wrong if
they choose not to scan something just because NLS has it on tape, but I do
want people to understand that Bookshare having something NLS has but NLS
has it only on tape doesn't necessarily mean duplicating efforts, and even
if it did, I personally don't see anything wrong with it, but that's just
me. They are two different sites that do work independently of each other,
even if members of one could be members of another. They could be, but that
doesn't mean they are. Anyway, that's just my way of thinking, but I
certainly wouldn't consider trying to force someone else to think the way I
do. <smile> I'm glad you do understand where I was coming from regarding the
cassettes, anyway. Take care.
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Monica Willyard 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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