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

[Berkowitz, Daniel J]

Unfortunately -- not very many. The membership of ATHEN is the most knowledgeable of the postsecondary disability professions and there are certainly many of our members who do not fully understand Chaffee and many of the other K-12 regulations.
 
I am excited by the Bookshare news -- but once again have to resign myself that it simply might not impact my day to day operations -- at least in the short term. 
 
 
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Daniel Berkowitz - Assistant Director 
Boston University Office of Disability Services 
19 Deerfield Street, 2nd floor 
Boston, MA 02215 
  
(617) 353-3658 (office) 
(617) 353-9646 (fax) 
djbrky at bu.edu <mailto:djbrky at bu.edu>  (eMail) 
www.bu.edu/disability <https://xmsweb.bu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.bu.edu/disability>  

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From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org on behalf of James Bailey
Sent: Tue 10/2/2007 4:41 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 of
print disability a lot of students are left in the dust.



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athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org]  On Behalf Of  Daryl
Murphy

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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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> 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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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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