[bksvol-discuss] Re: volunteer protections
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:32:58 -0700
Hi Ann and Rick,
More to the point, our making our names public and our e-mail
addresses as well is purely by choice. Anyone who is concerned has the
option not to make his/her name or e-mail address available. That is,
after all, who all of the infamous bookshare volunteers are. And they have
the right to their privacy. In my opinion nothing needs to change.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ann Parsons
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 6:26 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: volunteer protections
Hi all,
I think you're making a mountain out of a mole hill. Catherine Weber
was ignorant about Bookshare. Her letter was more condescending than
"mean". She honestly thought that Lissi had done something illegal.
If you spend your life running from folks who confront you on issues,
you'll make yourself sick. This is the only letter of this kind that
I've seen in six years of belonging to Bookshare. Actually, I figure
that if our names are public, that's a good thing. We should be proud
of what we do. We aren't doing anything to be ashamed of, and
therefore, we needn't hide. Hiding implies guilt. I ain't hidin'.
I've validated some twenty books for bookshare in the past year, and I
don't care who knows it!
Let any author step up to the plate and tell me that he or she wants to
be barred from reading print books. Let him or her tell me that they
would be satisfied to sit in a room while all their friends talked
about the latest best sellers and you hadn't read it because you could
not read it in print. Then, have any author you want tell me that he
or she wouldn't want his or her work to be shared with people who
couldn't read it in anything but a specialized format. And finally,
let any author tell me that he or she wouldn't appreciate knowing that
six or eight or ten sighted people had either bought the book or gotten
it from the library because one bookshare member had recommended it.
Here's a graphic example, folks, I'm currently reading 'I Shall Not
Want', by Julia Spencer-Fleming. I hope you all discover this
wonderful mystery series and that you will recommend it to your friends.
Ann P.
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Ann K. Parsons
Portal Tutoring
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