<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Congratulations, Debee! Maybe there is hope for me after all! LOL!<div><br></div><div>Heidi<br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 12:26 PM Deborah Armstrong <<a href="mailto:armstrongdeborah@fhda.edu">armstrongdeborah@fhda.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US">
<div class="gmail-m_6381279031442175786WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">The idea of putting labels on stuff that isn’t in your office is so obvious and so important; I need to make sure I’m doing it consistently! Had I done this some
things I didn’t want tossed would have remained!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I’ve faced the bear and my office is all neat again. Kept lots of commercially produced tactile graphics and modern Daisy players. Tossed all old Braille, in-house
produce tactiles, CD-based daisy players, weird cables that no longer fit anything and parts to things that broke a long time ago. I think real hoarders give up and can’t cope, so I must only be a fake hoarder!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Heidi Scher<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 22, 2019 8:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] Your opinions on keeping old AT<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">I love reading all the purge stories! I do a similar process to what Robert described. Unfortunately, w can't use the 2-year rule as we often go more like 5 years between students who may need to use documents requiring the PIAF and
sometimes even braille. The main items I keep are those big-dollar items - embossers and PIAFs, portable braille displays (as long as they can still connect and work with a computer), portable magnifiers. If it's less than $500 to replace and I haven't used
it for 3-5 years, it goes. I do put labels that say "before disposing of this item, please ask Heidi" on things that can't stay in my office.<u></u><u></u></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Heidi<u></u><u></u></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all">
<u></u><u></u></p>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">+++++++++++++++<br>
Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC<br>
Associate Director - AT<u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>she, her, hers</i><u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Center for Educational Access at the University of Arkansas<u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">1 University of Arkansas, ARKU 209<br>
Fayetteville, AR 72701<br>
479.575.3104 phone<br>
479.575.7445 fax<br>
+++++++++++++++<u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 6:57 PM David Andrews <<a href="mailto:dandrews920@comcast.net" target="_blank">dandrews920@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in">
<p class="MsoNormal">You might be able to find homes for some stuff. <br>
In Minnesota our Tech Act program, called STAR <br>
recycles obsolete technology, and gives stuff to <br>
people who can use older technology.<br>
<br>
There are a number of projects that collect <br>
Braille for African countries, and others.<br>
<br>
It is work, but it may ease your conscious.<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
<br>
At 10:21 AM 7/17/2019, you wrote:<br>
>Content-Language: en-US<br>
>Content-Type: multipart/alternative;<br>
> <br>
>boundary="_000_61C6DD490FBB3D43A1AA33BF158ED7AF032C13EE84MB2FHDALEARN_"<br>
><br>
>Curious about others' opinions here.<br>
><br>
>Over the years I've had a variety of deans, <br>
>supervisors, bosses. Each time we switch to new management priorities change.<br>
><br>
>One boss will want us to spend money when we <br>
>have it and buy as much equipment as possible. <br>
>Another boss wants to clean out and throw away <br>
>everything we haven't used in a few years. One <br>
>boss worries about accommodating every student <br>
>while another boss only worries if a student complains.<br>
><br>
>The current management is on a massive cleanup <br>
>canpaign so everything I don't want to see <br>
>thrown away has migrated to my office. I have <br>
>piles of stuff we "might need" someday but <br>
>haven't used in a while. Before I could stop it <br>
>a thirteen-volume Braille textbook was thrown <br>
>away that was only used one quarter. Last year <br>
>they nearly threw away my PIAF machine because <br>
>nobody had seen me using it – but I resurrected it in time.<br>
><br>
>So when the cleanup started I grabbed stuff. Now <br>
>I can hardly move I’m so – ‘er’ stuffed with stuff in my office!<br>
><br>
>But maybe like some previous bosses, I myself am <br>
>a hoarder. Maybe I need to just say goodbye and move on.<br>
><br>
>I email other departments asking if they want <br>
>some wacky thing, like a Braille atlas of the <br>
>world or an ancient but still working CCTV and get no response.<br>
><br>
>I surplused three perfectly working Braille <br>
>embossers a few years ago simply because I no <br>
>longer had convenient parallel or serial ports. <br>
>I couldn't take it home because that would have <br>
>been stealing but it was probably broken up for <br>
>scrap metal. And just yesterday I threw away all <br>
>our CD-based Daisy players because nobody has <br>
>requested one in at least four years.<br>
><br>
>I do tend to hoard because it has served me <br>
>well before. One of my friends still uses a <br>
>large-print French-English dictionary, a massive <br>
>thing I found at a flea market for a dollar. No doubt some school surplused it.<br>
><br>
>When I lost my job at TeleSensory, they were <br>
>literally throwing Braille displays and Optacons <br>
>in the dumpster. My husband and I snuck back <br>
>after dark and loaded them in to our car. I gave <br>
>away the Optacons to very grateful users and still use those displays today.<br>
>But I was young and poorer then; I’m not going <br>
>to grab stuff that doesn’t belong to me, yet I hate to see it thrown out.<br>
><br>
>Do you others tend to hang on to obsolete <br>
>technology in case it might be needed? Or do you <br>
>toss it out because after all you don't have space and don't want to hoard.<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
athen-list mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a><br>
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mailman12.u.washington.edu_mailman_listinfo_athen-2Dlist&d=DwMFaQ&c=WORo6LNFtQOb4SPVta8Jsg&r=K_2Yg4I05GGnHlSOevlp3QeE5-JEqtmoUnmP0YVj9ZM&m=j3sln4Mik3TLSkyFUJ4RyFqTbypOROGe0JUj6qtuR8g&s=uMroUGyvEmU1wqgX_Ku_sCrr_8uvE0J8UhHuGNJOJNo&e=" target="_blank">http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list</a><u></u><u></u></p>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
</div>
_______________________________________________<br>
athen-list mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list</a><br>
</blockquote></div></div>