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

James Bailey jbailey at uoregon.edu
Tue Oct 2 10:37:47 PDT 2007



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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> No community colleges or 4 year institutions. Still

leaving us out.



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athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Kelly
Ford

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Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:36 AM

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To: 'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'

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



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

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> Kelly




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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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To: bksvol-discuss at freelists.org; bookshare-discuss at freelists.org

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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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