[bksvol-discuss] Re: Training
- From: Lisa Friendly <lisaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:52:30 -0700
I will ask him about that. We are about to put in links to his site from the
Bookshare pages.
Lisa
> From: siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:32:41 -0500
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Training
>
>
> Lisa,
>
> Is Jake gooing to fix his site like it was before, so we can see the English
> and Spanish language books as far back as we want to go?
>
> Sue S.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lisa Friendly" <lisaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Jake Brownell" <jakeb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 2:12 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Training
>
>
> Wow. Thanks for your mail Amy. It helped me realize something important.
> John Glass announced the Volunteer Manual to the lists, but you and others
> may not have been subscribed (it was a couple of weeks ago) and the little
> brainstorm is that we need to continue to publicize its availability.
>
> I would really appreciate it if those on the list who send comments to new
> volunteers include a link to the volunteer manual every few days, just to
> make sure everyone who's a volunteer is aware of the resource.
>
> Here is the link: http://www.bookshare.org/web/VMMain.html and the feedback
> email is VMFeedback@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (shown in section 1.4).
>
> Also, while I'm promoting things, the links to Friends of Bookshare are now
> on the site, on the Bookshare home page and on the Volunteer Home Page (that
> link is to the WishList - I just realized I need to add one to Friends of
> Bookshare directly as well). Thanks to Jake Brownell, our wonderful Benetech
> intern, for getting those links up there so quickly. And we'll be adding
> links to Jake's Bookshare site as well. Wonderful resources from and for a
> great community.
>
> Lisa
>
>
>> From: Amy Goldring Tajalli <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Organization: home
>> Reply-To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:00:12 -0400
>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Training
>>
>> Lisa,
>>
>> I would be more than happy to forward any comments you consider valuable
>> to
>> the mailing list for feeedback that's in the manual but I never saw the
>> manual and did not know where to get it. If you tell me where to send the
>> comments I will send them but I would appreciate knowing where I could get
>> the manual as I have been going on the instinct and what I learned in my
>> years of teaching writing and correcting students papers along with part
>> time jobs proof-reading a variety of work. In the meantime I hope you are
>> sleeping well and that I will, too, in about an hour. I look forward to
>> hearing from you.
>>
>> Amy
>> omsm
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Lisa Friendly" <lisaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:29 PM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Training
>>
>>
>>> Be sure to forward valuable comments like this to the mailing list for
>>> feedback that's in the volunteer manual, so it all gets considered by the
>>> authors. I've seen some great comments on this list.
>>>
>>> The mailing address is in the first section of the manual (if I had it in
>>> front of me right now, I'd include it ...)
>>>
>>> Lazy Lisa (well, for tonight)
>>>
>>>
>>>> From: Amy Goldring Tajalli <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Organization: home
>>>> Reply-To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:52:11 -0400
>>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Training
>>>>
>>>> One thing I am sure is not in manual on validating is spell check. I
>>>> have
>>>> been
>>>> scanning and correcting my scans because a lot of the fiction I have
>>>> scanned
>>>> include dialect and/or dialogue which by normal standards is badly
>>>> misspelled
>>>> but is deliberate as with a character with a lisp where the author has
>>>> replaced every "s" in his lines with "th" and some the words become
>>>> very
>>>> strange. Also, many writers don't always spell properly or combine
>>>> words
>>>> which are normally separated and the publishers and editors have chosen,
>>>> rightly I think, to respect the authors words. So if you are not sure
>>>> whether
>>>> the word is misspelled or deliberate, and are not sighted and do not
>>>> have
>>>> a
>>>> copy of the text, then assume that the scanner deliberately left it as
>>>> it
>>>> was
>>>> and follow his/her example. That is why your choice of books to validate
>>>> is so
>>>> important but if you discover a book is not in your realm of experience
>>>> no one
>>>> will fault you for returning it for someone else to work on.
>>>>
>>>> Amy
>>>> omsm
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