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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=400461017-02102007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Yes, they leave us out again. Funny though, their
press release says:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=400461017-02102007><FONT face=Arial
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size=2>This funding is to fully support all schools and students
with<BR>qualifying print disabilities in the United States, K-12
and<BR>post-secondary, with access to the entire Bookshare.org collection
of<BR>accessible electronic books and to software for reading those books.
As<BR>of October 1, 2007, we will cease charging these schools and
students<BR>anything to join Bookshare.org as members.
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=400461017-02102007><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2>I read that as CC's and four-year's (post-secondary) but the membership
page shows that only the STUDENT has free access to what WE buy. That's
not "free."</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=2>Susan Kelmer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2>Coordinator</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2>Information ACCESS Lab</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2>St. Louis Community College at Meramec</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2>314/984-7951</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> athen-bounces@athenpro.org
[mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Daryl
Murphy<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:59 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Access
Technologists in Higher Education Network<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Athen] FW:
[bksvol-discuss] Great news about Bookshare.org<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">No
community colleges or 4 year institutions. Still leaving us
out.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Kelly Ford<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:36 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Athen]
FW: [bksvol-discuss] Great news about
Bookshare.org<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Apologies
if this was posted here already. I didn't see it on the
list.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Kelly</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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bksvol-discuss-bounce@freelists.org
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@freelists.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Lisa
Friendly<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 30, 2007 7:22 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
bksvol-discuss@freelists.org;
bookshare-discuss@freelists.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [bksvol-discuss] Great news
about Bookshare.org</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Forwarded from Jim
Fruchterman:<BR><BR>I'm happy to share incredible news, which will transform
Bookshare.org.<BR>On Friday, the Office of Special Education Programs of the
U.S. federal<BR>Department of Education made a major five-year award of $32
million to<BR>Bookshare.org.<BR><BR>This funding is to fully support all
schools and students with<BR>qualifying print disabilities in the United
States, K-12 and<BR>post-secondary, with access to the entire Bookshare.org
collection of<BR>accessible electronic books and to software for reading those
books. As<BR>of October 1, 2007, we will cease charging these schools
and students<BR>anything to join Bookshare.org as members. <BR><BR>In this
initial news flash, I can't begin to share with you all of our<BR>plans for
Bookshare.org now with this funding. But, we are planning on<BR>adding
more than 100,000 new educational books and materials to our<BR>existing
collection of over 34,000 titles. We are going to reach out to<BR>every
student, every family with a disabled student, and every school in<BR>the U.S.
to offer them the chance to join the Bookshare.org community<BR>and transform
the practice of making books accessible. We are going to<BR>coordinate
with schools and publishers to deliver the best quality<BR>content possible
and lower their costs in meeting our shared obligations<BR>to serve every
student with a disability in the nation. We expect to<BR>provide
millions of books to students through this new program over the<BR>next five
years, at a tenth or less of the historical cost of providing<BR>these
services.<BR><BR><BR>And, we expect our improvements to serve all of these
students will make<BR>Bookshare.org better for all of our Bookshare.org
users.<BR>Bookshare.org's track record of being highly responsive to our
members<BR>will be enhanced with significant funding to implement
major<BR>improvements to our content and services.<BR><BR>Our volunteer
community is an essential part of what made this grant<BR>possible, and you
are a crucial part to making this a success in the<BR>future. Your
commitment to our shared vision of better access to<BR>information is core to
where we are heading.<BR><BR>We want to make equal access to educational
materials for disabled<BR>students a reality!<BR><BR>Jim<BR><BR>Jim
Fruchterman<BR><BR>President and
CEO<BR><BR>Benetech</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>