Looking for Quakerism How-tos--on the Internet

RantWoman has recently gone on an eccentric internet excursion. RantWoman has an itch to be able to read some Quaker materials by herself, on her own dang it. It is not just that reading dusty minute books or things off the Meetinghouse library shelves will make RantWoman sneeze and make her eyeballs howl. RantWoman is working over several BIG questions beyond the fertile fields of Quaker blogs. RantWoman fully expects to have to season them with her whole meeting, but right now, RantWoman is just TRYING to have some independent perspective on a number of issues.

Is this wish unrealistic on multiple grounds? Is it further unreasonable to want others already to have researched how to make materials accessible? IT DEPENDS--and RantWoman supposes it unfortunately is her own dang responsibility to ask the questions respectfully and not expect people to read her mind or to pull rabbits instantly out of hats. Sigh. WHINE. Moan....

Now, scratching the surface of the results:

A Google hiccup: Quaker process for printing. Interesting headline.

Next!

There is interesting material in Wikipedia. It's in "British" and feels incomplete on multiple grounds. RantWoman is NOT immediately volunteering to fix anything. RantWoman also notes fascinating mention of some Dutch guy she had not previously heard of and "sociocracacy" teaching methods.


Next, Quaker business practices, about which RantWoman will at least read soon.

http://www.edengrace.org/quakerbusiness.html


http://alina_stefanescu.typepad.com/totalitarianism_today/2009/10/quaker-business-practices-might-be-worth-emulating.html

a paid article
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Article&hdAction=lnkpdf&contentId=1410869

That authoritative Quaker source, Forbes Magazine

http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/09/quaker-business-meetings-leadership-society-friends.html

Tonight RantWoman decided to put the names of two weighty Friends into the search engines. Lloyd Lee Wilson, Sandra Cronk. This yielded references to several Quaker book sources, all in print, no e-books.

Then RantWoman made a cursory effort to find these folks in

http://www.bookshare.org/

the library of Congress NLS

RantWoman did not check Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic; file that for now.

The fast verdict: this sounds like a job for SuperRantWoman. I expect that there are LOTS of blind people who would like to have something to read besides multiple versions of the Bible, the Book of Mormon.... SuperRantWoman though is going to season a leading about how to stay involved on a feasible scale. SIGH.

The hazards of overdigesting another's presentation: at least this item makes RantWoman want to read the primary source which under the circumstances is a good thing

http://quakerpagan.blogspot.com/2007/04/lloyd-lee-wilson-herne-and-sea-of.html

Thank heaven for PDF--alas, and for having the most current versions of multiple pieces of software needed to make best use of it. RantWoman found a wonderful pamphlet published by NCYMC. RantWoman screamed through it in a fast pass. RantWoman was enthralled by some passages and will need to digest others with more thought, but just finding the darn thing made RantWoman so happy she can hardly stand to sleep, which she unquestionably MUST do for now.