[Athen] FW: [bksvol-discuss] Great news about Bookshare.org
Ron Stewart
ron.stewart at dolphinusa.com
Tue Oct 2 14:10:13 PDT 2007
Not many, most DS office have not even begun to understand the complexities
of this conversation. That is part of why I have been doing the trainings
that I have been doing for the last two years.
Ron
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From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of James Bailey
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 4:42 PM
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] FW: [bksvol-discuss] Great news about Bookshare.org
Ron.
"due to the fact that they are using a Chafee based definition of print
disability"
How many DS offices do you think understand this distinction?
James
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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 15:59:22 -0400, "Ron Stewart"
<ron.stewart at dolphinusa.com> wrote:
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> Based on the conditions of the RFP Postsecondary has to be
included but due to the fact that they are using a Chafee based definition
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print disability a lot of students are left in the dust.
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> Ron Stewart
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> From:
athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On Behalf Of
Daryl
Murphy
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Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 12:59 PM
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To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network
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Subject: Re: [Athen] FW: [bksvol-discuss] Great news about Bookshare.org
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> No community colleges or 4 year institutions. Still
leaving us out.
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> From:
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
the list.
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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
> Forwarded
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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