[bookshare-discuss] Re: Books and Beyond Interviews Dave Lieber Wednesday, January 9, 2008>

  • From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:43:41 -0500

Hi, Sue and Liz. Liz, I don't know if you know this, but the Friends Of Bookshare project is completely funded and operated by volunteers at Accessible World. It is completely separate from Bookshare in a similar way to how a friends of the library group works to serve and support a public library. We are very aware of the needs of our deaf blind friends as Pat Price is hearing impaired herself. Sue has been gracious about teaching me about how a deaf/blind person does things and has helped me with some of my experiments to make technology work for us. For most of our events, one of us types up a summary of what took place, including contact information for the guest speaker.
I'm so glad that Elizabeth is working on Jim's interview. It is indeed long, and so many ideas are packed into that time that just summarizing the chat with a paragraph or two wouldn't work well. I think Elizabeth is working on actually writing out what Jim said, and I'm glad she's willing to do it. I have written summaries of several of our previous chats with various people but knew this one was beyond my abilities. I was in a car accident 8 years ago and have a permanent injury to my spine. I can't type more than 10 or 20 minutes at a time without pain. So I was thrilled to see someone else step forward to help.
We do care about both of you ladies, and we'd like to find a way to include you in the activities on Accessible World. We don't have the funding to hire a transcriptionist right now. If you have ideas for making this work better for you, I know Pat wants to hear about them. Her email address is pat@xxxxxxxxxxxx . We're not giving up on finding a solution here. 

Monica Willyard

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