[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: church-related requests added to and nonfiction wish lists

  • From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:15:19 -0600

Doug will call our church library on Tuesday (when they are open next) and see 
if they have either of them.

Valerie


On Mar 12, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Shelley L. Rhodes wrote:

> These are good recommendations.
>  
> I don't have access to them, but will find them if I can.
>  
> Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
> and Ludden Black Labrador Guide Dog
>  
> Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to 
> the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases 
> where it does not fit, is pedantry... To apply a rule with natural ease, with 
> judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the 
> words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of 
> the situation, is mastery. -George Polya, professor of mathematics (1887-1985)
>  
> 
>  
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cindy
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: j.mccullough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 6:12 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Fw: church-related requests added to and nonfiction 
> wish lists
> 
> 
> 
> Cindy
> 
> Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and 
> books-being-scanned list available at sites below
> 
> 
> 
> Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
> 
> Books Being Scanned List: 
> https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
> 
> --- On Fri, 3/12/10, Julie McCullough <j.mccullough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> From: Julie McCullough <j.mccullough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Book Requests
> To: popularplace@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, March 12, 2010, 1:37 PM
> 
> Dear Bookshare Team,
>  
> I am a United Methodist pastor, serving three churches.  One of my churches 
> has studied two books by Rick Warren, and they really need to look now at 
> their purpose as a church.  I suggested that perhaps we should look at Rick 
> Warren's The Purpose Driven Church.  It appears that you only have The 
> Purpose Driven Life, and I think that people who like Rick Warren might like 
> to see some of his other books.  In another one of my churches, a woman is 
> reading Who Stole My Church, by Gordon MacDonald and thought that it would be 
> good for us to study it.  From what I understand, it is fiction but it has 
> some valuable things in it.  I would appreciate it if you could consider 
> putting these books in.  Thank you for this wonderful service.  it's so good 
> to have somse of the books that friends and community members are currently 
> talkling about.
>  
> Sincerely,
>  
> Julie McCullough
> 

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