Their donated services open mainstream opportunities to our borrowers and are the heart of our work. Volunteering Opportunities Thank you for your interest in becoming a volunteer for Recording for the Blind. We always need volunteers to read general subjects such as history, psychology, and literature. We also need individuals who have a thorough knowledge of any science or technical subject, such as Accounting, Computer Science, Law, Medicine, Biology, Electronics, Physics, Geology, Mathematics, Chemistry, Engineering, and Statistics. You must have a willingness to commit to approximately 2 hours per week on a regular basis, either daytime or evenings.
Volunteers work in teams of two and learn to depend on each other.
Teamwork is the reason we produce quality tapes for our borrowers. This consists of setting up the open-reel recording tape, following the text as it is being read, making corrections if necessary, plus some basic, but very important record keeping. The training period includes hands-on work, supervised at first and then solo. After a time you may be ready to begin reading the texts we record. We will then ask you to take a voice test.