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Maine Airs Volunteer Opportunities:

We invite you to consider becoming a volunteer reader for the Maine Audio Information and Reading service. Readers present local stories from statewide daily and weekly newspapers for listeners who are visually impaired, blind or print handicapped.

We broadcast from studios at 12 Acme Road in Brewer and at The Iris Network, 189 Park Avenue, Portland over the secondary audio program channels of MPBN. Our broadcasts reach listeners from Portland and Lewiston to Houlton and Presque Isle.

We seek readers who can commit to at least a one-hour on-air shift per week or be available for substituting for regular readers. Volunteers read in pairs, and spend about thirty minutes prior to airtime preparing the papers for broadcast. The Maine Reader offers opportunities to record books.  We conduct a brief audition for each new reader prospect.

Our service is warmly received by listeners who otherwise would have little or no access to the news of their communities. Readers make a valuable contribution to helping individuals who are visually impaired or blind to live more independently.

The Iris Network

Maine Audio Information and Reading Service

12 Acme Road, Suite 104 Brewer, Maine 04412

207-989-0058

JOB TITLE:

Maine AIRS Reader

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Read daily and weekly Maine newspapers either live or recorded for broadcast over Maine AIRS.

TIME REQUIREMENTS:

Preferred: 90 minutes per week as a regular reader; at least twice a month as a fill-in or back-up reader

SUPERVISION:

Supervised by Director of Maine AIRS

Responsibilities:

1. Arrives at broadcast studio ½ hour before broadcast.

2. Using Maine AIRS guidelines, select, prepare and read articles, ads, obituaries and features from various Maine newspapers without editorializing.

3. Attempts to make printed word come alive without editorializing. 4. Records volunteer hours in time log and notifies Director of Maine AIRS of changes in address or phone numbers. 5. Notifies Maine AIRS in a timely manner if unable to fill shift. Qualifications:

Excellent reading and vocabulary skills. Enthusiasm for the printed word. Satisfactorily passes audition and vocabulary tests. High degree of discipline, motivation, and thoroughness.

For more information and an application, call 989-0058 or 800-715-0097  or click the following link to print out an application form.  Return it to the address on the form.

Click Here for a printable Maine Airs Application Form - Brewer Area

Click Here for a printable Maine Airs Application Form - Portland Area

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