[bksvol-discuss] recruiting volunteers
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:10:09 -0700 (PDT)
I've tried with all my friends, but they all prefer other volunteer projects,
unfortunately. I think I've recruited some members, but I'm not sure. I've told
them about it but I don't know if they actually joined.
Marilyn has done a wonderful job getting some of her friends to volunteer.
Cindy
--- On Wed, 7/23/08, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: WishListRequest From Chela
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 12:27 PM
> Speaking of man/woman power being small, has anyone tried
> recruiting
> volunteers? There are undoubtedly countless sighted book
> lovers out there who would
> like to share their books with blind people, but don't
> know about Bookshare.
> I have only been registered as a volunteer for a week now
> and it did occur to
> me to advertise a bit. So far I have posted a message on a
> My Space literary
> discussion group telling them about volunteering for
> Bookshare. There are no
> doubt very many literary discussion groups out there on the
> Internet where
> similar posts could be made. Why not look around and let
> people know about it?
> In a message dated 7/23/2008 11:20:22 A.M. Pacific Daylight
> Time,
> rhyami@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> Hi, Susan. I don't have a problem with people doing
> what you and Larry
> are doing by scanning a volume with several novels in it.
> That isn't
> what I was trying to say.
>
> My concern is that two wish list request messages have
> been posted
> this week asking for books that are already in the
> collection. I don't
> know if people are forgetting to look for the books on
> Bookshare first
> or if they're having a problem searching for the books
> they want to
> read. If it's the latter, we need to work on explaining
> how to use
> search so people can find the books they want. If
> that's the issue,
> education and support will solve it fairly easily.
>
> I'm a person who values using resources wisely. I know
> that isn't
> everyone's cup of tea. Knowing how people sometimes
> respond to book
> requests, I worry that a volunteer will take on a wish
> list request
> only to find that it's rejected for already being on
> Bookshare. In
> fact, I know of three cases of this occurring in the past
> six weeks.
> This means that both a submitter and validater wasted
> their time
> working on a book that was ultimately rejected. I know
> that each of
> these people could have stopped the process by checking
> the collection
> first, so I'm not blaming anyone personally. It just
> seems like a sad
> waste of our resources to me when our man/woman power is
> fairly small.
>
> Since I don't want to burden Grandma Cindy further, I
> guess there is
> no way to deal with this except to remind volunteers to
> check the
> collection before buying and scanning a book request. The
> other
> suggestion I have is to check for both the title and author
> since the
> spelling of the author's name in the wish list request
> is sometimes
> incorrect.
>
>
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