[Athen] FW: [bksvol-discuss] Great news about Bookshare.org

[James Bailey]

The second paragraph on bookshare's home page does say"and post-secondary."  I'll guess we'll have to see what that means.  Or did you dig deeper and find post-secondary excluded?

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James Bailey
Adaptive Technology Access Adviser, University of Oregon
1299 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1299
Office: 541-346-1076
jbailey at uoregon.edu

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 09:58:58 -0700, "Daryl Murphy" <dmurphy at collegeofthedesert.edu> wrote:

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athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org]  On Behalf  Of  Kelly
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 To:  'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network' 

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> Apologies if this was posted here already.  I didn't see it on

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> From:  bksvol-discuss-bounce at freelists.org

[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce at freelists.org]  On Behalf Of  Lisa Friendly 

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 Sent:  Sunday, September 30, 2007 7:22 PM 

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 Subject:  [bksvol-discuss] Great news about Bookshare.org 

 

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from Jim Fruchterman: 

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I'm happy to share incredible news, which will  transform Bookshare.org. 

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On Friday, the Office of Special Education Programs of the U.S. federal 

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Department of Education made a major five-year award of $32 million to 

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Bookshare.org. 

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This funding is to fully support all schools and students with 

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qualifying print disabilities in the United States, K-12 and 

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post-secondary, with access to the entire Bookshare.org collection of 

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accessible electronic books and to software for reading those books.  As 

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of October 1, 2007,  we will cease charging these schools and students 

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anything to join Bookshare.org as members.  

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In this initial news flash, I can't begin to share with you all of our 

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plans for Bookshare.org now with this funding.  But, we are planning on 

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adding more than 100,000 new educational books and materials to our 

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existing collection of over 34,000 titles.  We are going to reach out to 

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every student, every family with a disabled student, and every school in 

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the U.S. to offer  them the chance to join the Bookshare.org community 

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and transform the practice of making books accessible.  We are going to 

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coordinate with schools and publishers to deliver the best quality 

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content possible and lower their costs in meeting our shared obligations 

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to serve every student with a disability in the nation.  We expect to 

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provide millions of books to students through this new program over the 

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next five years, at a tenth or less of the historical cost of providing 

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these services. 

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And, we expect our improvements to serve all of these students will make 

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Bookshare.org better for all of our Bookshare.org users. 

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Bookshare.org's track record of being highly responsive to our members 

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will be enhanced with significant funding to implement major 

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improvements to our content and services. 

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Our volunteer community is an essential part of what made this grant 

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possible, and you are a crucial part to making this a success in the 

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future.  Your commitment to our shared vision of better access to 

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information is core to where we are heading. 

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We want to make equal access to educational materials for disabled 

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students a reality! 

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Jim 

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Jim Fruchterman 

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President and CEO 

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Benetech 

 

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