the first dissertation about LibriVox is finished!
Posted: June 21st, 2018, 6:44 am
at least, it's the first dissertation about LibriVox that I've ever heard of. and I've just gone through to triple-check all my citations and formatting and page numbers and everything is finally done!
one of the last parts I worked on was my acknowledgements section. there is a long paragraph in there just about all the LV volunteers I am indebted to, and I wanted to post it here. some of you may end up seeing the final published dissertation, but in case that's not at all interesting to you, you at least get to read this little piece:
... I must mention as many LibriVoxers as I can here, in recognition of their generous work and patience with me as I joined, participated, and researched the project we are a part of. Specific and everlasting thanks to all of the following fellow volunteers: to Lynnet, for first approving my 1-minute test recording, for helping me get started as reader and prooflistener, and for meta coordinating my first solo project; to Carolin, for welcoming me into several poetry projects; to annise for allowing me to edit the LibriVox wiki; to craigdav1 who prooflistened my first solo; to MaryAnnSpiegel, for inviting me to coordinate my first collaborative project and for meta-coordinating my second solo; to bluechien, for recording one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard; to jimmowatt, ductapeguy, Cori, RuthieG, and bobgon55 for their impressive and invaluable work on the LibriVox Community Podcast; to commonsparrow3 for her help with LibriVox anniversary projects; to mb, TriciaG, WoollyBee, peppersnoodles93, and BettyB for contributing their memories to my Chapter 3 research; to JorWat for so patiently and thoroughly prooflistening my current in-progress solo; to kayray, PeterWhy, mightyfelix, Basquetteur, Availle, lezer, Piotrek81, alg101, DACSoft, kathrinee, and DrPGould for encouraging my work on this dissertation; and not least of all, to Hugh McGuire for starting the whole project and for being cool on twitter. There are many others LibriVoxers to whom I owe thanks, whose names and contributions I may have overlooked when composing these acknowledgements. I will always be in awe of the big and small ways LibriVoxers make the world a better place. Without all of their efforts to make the processes and content of their work public, accessible, and inviting, I would not have had the kind of access I’ve needed to do the work of this dissertation.
when I have a fully approved PDF version to share, I will definitely let everyone know in case they want to look at the full thing. it feels so weird and crazy to have it so finished after all this time!
one of the last parts I worked on was my acknowledgements section. there is a long paragraph in there just about all the LV volunteers I am indebted to, and I wanted to post it here. some of you may end up seeing the final published dissertation, but in case that's not at all interesting to you, you at least get to read this little piece:
... I must mention as many LibriVoxers as I can here, in recognition of their generous work and patience with me as I joined, participated, and researched the project we are a part of. Specific and everlasting thanks to all of the following fellow volunteers: to Lynnet, for first approving my 1-minute test recording, for helping me get started as reader and prooflistener, and for meta coordinating my first solo project; to Carolin, for welcoming me into several poetry projects; to annise for allowing me to edit the LibriVox wiki; to craigdav1 who prooflistened my first solo; to MaryAnnSpiegel, for inviting me to coordinate my first collaborative project and for meta-coordinating my second solo; to bluechien, for recording one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard; to jimmowatt, ductapeguy, Cori, RuthieG, and bobgon55 for their impressive and invaluable work on the LibriVox Community Podcast; to commonsparrow3 for her help with LibriVox anniversary projects; to mb, TriciaG, WoollyBee, peppersnoodles93, and BettyB for contributing their memories to my Chapter 3 research; to JorWat for so patiently and thoroughly prooflistening my current in-progress solo; to kayray, PeterWhy, mightyfelix, Basquetteur, Availle, lezer, Piotrek81, alg101, DACSoft, kathrinee, and DrPGould for encouraging my work on this dissertation; and not least of all, to Hugh McGuire for starting the whole project and for being cool on twitter. There are many others LibriVoxers to whom I owe thanks, whose names and contributions I may have overlooked when composing these acknowledgements. I will always be in awe of the big and small ways LibriVoxers make the world a better place. Without all of their efforts to make the processes and content of their work public, accessible, and inviting, I would not have had the kind of access I’ve needed to do the work of this dissertation.
when I have a fully approved PDF version to share, I will definitely let everyone know in case they want to look at the full thing. it feels so weird and crazy to have it so finished after all this time!
