Following that logic, let's just shut down bookshare and send all the money
to this other project which prevents people from dying. After all, saving
people's lives is more important than bookshare's getting books to disabled
people.
I am half serious. Starting two valuable projects and then saying one
should be undercut to support another is just plain wrong. It lets down
the volunteers working on bookshare, lets down the borrowers, and is just
plain not telling people the truth about what is going on with bookshare's
parent organization.
I for one want just plain more truth telling from the organization staff on
this one. I have been volunteering with bookshare for over two years. I
have worked on lots and lots of books. The changes I and other have been
requesting have been changes we have been requesting for as long as I have
been volunteering for bookshare. We heard after Marisa left that changes
would be made. I for one have noticed little change since the spring
meeting with bookshare at CSUN.
I want to know I am being adequately supported as a volunteer so that wish
lists are updated to prevented duplicate work and the programming is done
to keep the bookshare site strong. I wonder for example if my copy of
starhawk's book was cut off because of a programming error at
bookshare. My copy here is complete. When I worked on it months ago I
gave it a great deal of loving attention as I do to all my validations. I
am sad it failed. I am even sadder to hear of these newly confusing issues
of who John actually supports.
We were told a volunteer cannot be found to do part of his job and thus get
some of his responsibilities lightened. Now we apparently are being told
that his job is not supporting us volunteers but is instead supporting
other organizations. I am confused and apalled.
For those of you who are going to say that something which saved lives is
more important than bookshare I agree. I also agree that if an
organization is started which bookshare staff thinks is important such as
bookshare they need to support it adequately. Otherwise we get just
another blindness related organization run for the benefit of the
organization and not the blind population it serves. I have witnessed this
all my life. Lots of us know blindness organizations which poorly support
blind folks and whose first duty is to themselves and not to us as its
target population.
If bookshare needs me to work with it to obtain grant money to support its
volunteers I will be glad to do so. That is what I do for a living. I get
paid for it. I will work for bookshare, get paid, and get it grants to
support volunteers if that is what is needed.
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