[Athen] Book for an online student

[Susan Kelmer]

Self-published.  I don’t have it.  But it’s only $23 on Amazon.  Have your department buy it, cut it, and scan it.  Would be quickest and easiest.

Susan Kelmer
Alternate Format Production Program Manager
Disability Services
University of Colorado Boulder
303-735-4836



From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Robert Spangler
Sent: Friday, November 8, 2019 7:53 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Athen] Book for an online student

The book info is as follows:
The Symphony of profound knowledge
9781532002397

We are going to check with the department and purchase the text if necessary, but if anyone has it that would be greatly appreciated.


On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 9:42 AM Susan Kelmer <Susan.Kelmer at colorado.edu<mailto:Susan.Kelmer at colorado.edu>> wrote:
I think in the interest of speed, you get that book ASAP and get it scanned.  Unless it’s a $400 book, it should not be a struggle for the office to pay for it.

Also, have you asked on the listservs to see if anyone as files for it?  I have almost 5000 books in my files, maybe someone has this one that you need?

Susan Kelmer
Alternate Format Production Program Manager
Disability Services
University of Colorado Boulder
303-735-4836



From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu>> On Behalf Of Robert Spangler
Sent: Friday, November 8, 2019 7:36 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list at u.washington.edu>>
Subject: Re: [Athen] Book for an online student

It's not necessarily sharing the scanned files, but asking the student to mail me the physical book that's the difficulty.  Is that fair to do, since they would have to pay to do this?  Or would we be expected to buy a copy of the book or reimburse his shipping?


On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 5:18 PM Wink Harner <foreigntype at gmail.com<mailto:foreigntype at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Robert et al ATHENITES,

We did this frequently at Southern Oregon University not just for students in online classes but for all students (mostly all). We used Sugar Sync, and online filesharing application, and would convert the books to the appropriate format and upload the files to sugar sync, where the students could logon and download wherever they happened to be.

There are a number of apps that are free that are efficient and easy to use in this category, we chose one for the college that was a paid subscription service, was not terribly expensive, but because we wanted to protect both the privacy of the student and the copyright of the books we created individual links for each student for their books and contract when or if they downloaded the books or if other attempts were made to download the books. The files are removed each semester. If a student needs it again, we can reload the file for them.

If you need help with recommendations on cloud-based services, let us know. Sure there are many of us online it would be happy to share recommendations.

This is more common than you might think! There are fairly simple ways of dealing with it. Now you know :-)
Hope this helps.

Wink Harner
Wink Harner
Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production
The Foreign Type
Portland OR
foreigntype at gmail.com<mailto:foreigntype at gmail.com>
480-984-0034
This email was dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive quirks, misrecognitions, or errata .


On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 1:16 PM Robert Spangler <rspangler1 at udayton.edu<mailto:rspangler1 at udayton.edu>> wrote:
Hello, I have an alternative format request from a student who is enrolled in one of our online programs and is not local.  The publisher has not responded to a request for an alternative format version of this textbook.  Normally, I would offer the student an in-house scan of the text, but this is hardly convenient given the student is not local.  Has anyone else experienced this issue, and what did you do?

Thanks,
Robert


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