[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare.org and You
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 21:27:06 -0800 (PST)
Welcome, Jennifer. I'm sure you're a welcome addition
and hope you will enjoy working for bookshare. It's
nice to have a bookshare member and someone with your
background who knows what's gong on and what's needed.
Thank you, Janice, for letting us know what's gong
on--and thank you to eba for the funding. Now we'll
keep our fingers crossed for the new position to be
quickly filled with a more-than competent person. It's
too bad the person has to be based in Palo Alto, as I
know there are members of bookshare who would be good.
And it's too bad Carrie doesn't want to work
full-time.
Cindy
--- Janice Carter <Janice.C@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For the last year, the Bookshare.org community,
> including staff,
> volunteers, members, and partners, have been
> challenged by a variety of
> things including staffing, funding, book processing,
> and more funding.
>
> Things have recently changed however. The following
> will outline the
> high level happenings that will directly affect you
> over the next few
> months and years.
>
> 1. Overall Benetech funding got a huge kick start
> from the founders of
> eBay last month.
>
> 2. As a result, the first open requisition at
> Benetech was for
> Bookshare.org Manager, Alternative Media.
>
> 3. As of last Monday, Ms. Jennifer Sutton has
> agreed to join the staff
> of Bookshare.org in Palo Alto to build the
> Bookshare.org collection of
> the future. If you don't know Jennifer, she has
> worked for
> organizations such as NCB Development Corporation,
> Washington, DC;
> Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic; CAST, Inc.;
> Library of Congress,
> National Library Service for the Blind and
> Physically Handicapped; and
> the DAISY Consortium. She has authored or
> co-authored articles and
> publications such as "DAISY For All: Publishers'
> Collaboration Enabling
> Print Access," Information Technology and
> Disabilities, 2004; the DAISY
> News (Editor) for the DAISY Consortium, 2002 - 2004;
> A Guide to Making
> Documents Accessible, American Council of the Blind,
> 2002; "Dial A for
> Access: Getting Cell Phones You Can Really Use,"
> AccessWorld, 2002; "An
> Analysis of Collection Development and Collection
> Management for
> Bookshare.org," Benetech, 2001; "How to Get an
> Accessible Telephone,"
> American Foundation for the Blind, 2001; "A Dip into
> Accessibility on
> the WWW," presented at Kansas State University,
> 2001.
>
> Bottom line - she is a Bookshare.org member, one of
> the most
> knowledgeable people about accessible formats -
> DAISY, NIMAS and BRF -
> and she's now working for all of us. Jennifer will
> be at CSUN on March
> 23rd to meet with Bookshare.org's members,
> volunteers, and partners.
>
> 4. Marissa Mika set a new level of quality in
> supporting you, the
> Bookshare.org Volunteers. As a result, we have
> created a new role of
> overall support to customers and volunteers. This
> position was posted
> at the Benetech website yesterday afternoon:
>
>
http://www.benetech.org/join_us/position_postings.shtml#bcsm
>
> "This position provides support to a wide range of
> Bookshare.org
> customers from Internet beginners to IT
> professionals. The incumbent in
> this position also serves as the voice and
> champion/advocate of the
> Bookshare.org remote volunteers within the
> Bookshare.org organization."
>
>
> If you are interested in applying for this role
> (which is based in Palo
> Alto), please contact me directly at
> janice.c@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> If you have any questions about any other issues,
> call me anytime at
> either of the numbers below.
>
> Thanks again for your support.
>
>
>
> Janice Carter
> Director, Literacy Programs
>
> Benetech
> 480 S. California Ave., Suite 201
> Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA
>
> (650) 475-5440 x122
> (650) 759-5828 cell
> (650) 475-1066 fax
>
> janice.c@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.benetech.org
>
> The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving
> Humanity
> A Nonprofit Organization
>
>
>
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