Duration: 37:45
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With contributions from TriciaG, Mary in Arkansas, Madelyn Pauline (hertzm), schrm, julianpratley, Greg Giordano, Amelia Chesley (plaidsicle), KevinS, and Maria Kasper (commonsparrow3)
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00:00 Introduction
01:38 TriciaG with personal experiences and interesting statistics
08:32 Experiences of new member julianpratley
09:48 New member Madelyn Pauline meets LibriVox via Moby Dick
12:34 Amelia Chesley (plaidsicle) - Moving house during a pandemic
16:23 Mary in Arkansas - On PLing and her MIL's take on LibriVox
20:16 How LV keeps Maria Kasper (commonsparrow3) busy at home
22:02 Schrm reports from the German-language branch of LibriVox
25:40 Bloopers!
28:33 KevinS surprises us by getting serious (almost!)
31:16 Greg Giordano - Being an essential worker means less time for LV
36:01 Conclusion
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It has been awhile since we last had a LibriVox Community Podcast. Now seems like a good time to do one, as we have a topic that has never figured in a previous podcast. Namely, what is the role LibriVox is playing during the present pandemic?
This will be a podcast specifically about LibriVox during the pandemic. Nothing about politics or economics or medical developments or world affairs. Simply a particular focus on LibriVox's place in all this.
There are plenty of possible angles for discussion here. Some possibilities --
- Many of us are confined to our homes in lockdowns. Does this mean we are finding more time to record? Does recording give us something to do with our idle time? Does it make us feel that we're contributing something to the situation?
- On the other hand, do we find it more difficult to record, with more family members at home all the time, and thus less private space or quiet time? How do we deal with this? Have we discovered some creative recording solutions? Have some of us switched from recording to proof-listening, or other non-recording roles at LV?
- With schools closed, many parents are doing their best to home-school. Have you been making use of LV audiobooks as part of the curriculum? How have you used them? Tell us about creative ideas for using LV with the kids during this time.
- Now that most of our public libraries are closed, and some (like mine) limit how many audiobooks can be checked out on a library card, are more of us listening to LV audiobooks? Has the way we listen changed? (For example, I used to listen in the car on the way to work, but now that I'm staying home, obviously that routine has changed!)
- Does the LV community draw us regular members to hang out and chat in the forum more than usual, simply to find company here, people who seem like distant friends?
- Maybe an admin who tracks stats could tell us if we have had more new members joining us lately? More completed projects happening? Any other notable shifts in LV stats since this situation began?
To put this podcast together, I need your help! Please record your story of how LibriVox fits into your life during this pandemic. Try to keep your remarks to about 2 to 4 minutes. If you want to ramble a bit longer, and leave it to me to choose the best bits to use in the podcast, I will do that. Understand that I may not be able to use your entire recording. I will edit as seems best, for instance, if several people repeat very similar remarks, or if some remarks are off the topic, or too political, or if the podcast is running too long. I'll keep all the best bits, though!
If you are a PL'er or listener, and have something to say, but you don't want to record, you can still participate by typing your comments in this thread, indicating that you are willing for them to be used in the podcast.
- Name your file podcast149_[readername].mp3
- Upload your file with the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
(If you have trouble reading the image above, please message an admin) - You'll need to select the MC, which for this project is: libraryanne
- Once your file is finished uploading, please post the link here.
Since I will need a few days to edit the podcast, I'd appreciate having all submissions by May 27th.
I'm looking forward to hearing everyone's experiences!
