[Studiotalk] Remote Studio Volunteers Query

[Marlin, Mike@CSL]

Dear NLS studio folks,

Like many of you, I suppose, in person volunteering for us was suspended when the pandemic hit back in March 2020. Since then our Studio Coordinator Christopher Duran has been diligently converting A2D local recordings at home while we have all been teleworking. Alas our new titles production has come to a grinding halt.  I have been asking our administration about enlisting remote volunteers, but at this juncture we're unable to utilize them. While we are awaiting some action from our legal team to initiate remote volunteering (long story), I thought I would inquire about others who may be utilizing remote or online studio volunteers.

We are curious about the following:


*         Does your network library studio use remote volunteers, and if so for which tasks (narrators, monitors, reviewers)?

*         Did your vvolunteer policy already allow remote volunteers or did you have to amend it, and if so what was needed to be put into place?

*                         For those of you who have remote volunteers, do you supply your volunteers with any software, i.e. HABC or APH or ? If not do they supply their own software to create audio files?

*         Finally, do your volunteers make their own corrections as they go or after being reviewed, if at all?

I know this is a lot to ask but we're very curious and hoping to come up with a viable remote studio volunteer program for now and even after the pandemic has passed and we can return to in-person volunteering.
Please feel free to respond to this post or contact me  directly.

Stay safe,
Mike M.


Mike L. Marlin, Director
Braille and Talking Book Library
California State Library
P.O. Box 942837
900 N Street, Suite 110
Sacramento, CA 94237-0001
email: mike.marlin at library.ca.gov<mailto:mike.marlin at library.ca.gov>
Phone: (916) 603-7209
Toll Free in CA: (800) 952-5666
Fax: (916) 654-1119
Web site: btbl.ca.gov


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