[bksvol-discuss] Re: "OT" Introductions to Bookshare Summer In-House Volunteers
- From: "Chela Robles" <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 10:20:20 -0700
Welcome James Gong, You'll really really like it here! Chela Robles
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but when you get the two of them together in a way people can relate to,
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Rains" <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Scott Rains" <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 10:09 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: "OT" Introductions to Bookshare Summer
In-House Volunteers
Bookshare volunteers,
As I promised yesterday here is the first of several in-house Bookshare
summer volunteers introducing themselves to you.
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
My name is James Fong and I am an in-house volunteer.
I have lived in the Bay Area for a long time...What piqued my interest in
becoming a volunteer with Bookshare is its worldwide outreach to the
visually impaired community. Before coming to Bookshare, I had extensive
experience in dealing with the deaf community, both as a volunteer and as
a paid employee. Through this experience I was given the opportunity to
mentor a young deaf child. I was able to be a part of his life for 12
years. In addition, I was able to do some sign language interpretation for
a local church's musical and drama productions twice a year, for a number
of years.
Before I decided to become a volunteer here at Bookshare, I had checked
out the Benetech website because I was in the process of lookin' for
another job. What I had read on the Bentech website and more specifically
under Bookshare, it seemed like an interesting place to become more
involve in helping people. I also have an interest in reaching out to the
world wide community. While in high school and in college I took a few
classes in Spanish as well as a class in German. In recent years, I have
also taken a deeper interest in learning more about the culture that I was
born into and learning to appreciate it even more.
While I have been volunteering here at Bookshare, I have learned to
appreciate more of what you guys are doing to allow the visually impaired
community to read books. Since I have been mainly scanning book here on
site, I have taken the opportunity to learn more about how the visually
impaired person actually read books. I had spoken with a Bookshare
employee recently. I was able to get a better idea of how the employee was
able to do his work as well as seeing for myself on how a visually
impaired person would read a book .Another benefit that I had received
from volunteering was a better appreciation about reading in general. It
is amazing stuff.
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From: Scott Rains
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 10:29 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Belated Introductions to Bookshare Summer In-House Volunteers
Volunteers,
Sometimes the obvious just slips right past me!
For the past month a steady flow of summer volunteers have contacted
Bookshare. Several have started to come in regularly. In fact, on
Wednesdays we have had up to eight scheduled (although not quite that many
computer available for them. smile )
I have asked some of our regular summer in-house volunteers to write up a
quick note about themselves and their tasks. Some chop & scan textbooks.
Some file or recycle books off to Africa or a landfill. Some write
synopses. Others quality-check books and metadata on PQ and vendor
submissions. All of them contribute firsthand descriptions of their tasks
to me for incorporation into training materials for future volunteers.
I'll share notes from these in-house volunteers here on the list as "OT"
as they come in. These volunteers won't become list members while working
in-house as their tasks are somewhat different than what off-site
volunteers do but some have indicated a desire to continue as scanners an
proofers after their time here as well so over time you will get to know
them too.
Volunteers are definitely not going out of fashion at Bookshare. Your work
is still at the heart of growing the Bookshare collection and fulfilling
the mission of getting high-quality books out to print-disabled readers in
a timely way.
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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