<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello Tamara,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for your reply! We have plans that we're implementing so we can process a book - digital files or hard copy. We have several of our conversion specialists - who are students - who want to work, so once we have files, they will be working on the conversion process.</div><div><br></div><div>The big potential problem is what to do if we can't get files and can't get books. With our university print shop closed and local businesses not providing chop service, we'll have to manually scan. Not ideal, but we'll do what has to be done. I wish we had a Print Shop that would do the services you have! That would be fantastic! Ours simply cuts the book for us - that's it. They don't even do re-binding. Scanning/binding/remediation is all done within our lab. </div><div><br>Thanks again!</div><div><br></div><div>Heidi</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>+++++++++++++++<br>Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC<br>Associate Director - AT<br></div><div><i>she, her, hers</i><br></div><div>Center for Educational Access at the University of Arkansas</div><div>1 University of Arkansas, ARKU 209<br>Fayetteville, AR 72701<br>479.575.3104 phone<br>479.575.7445 fax<br>+++++++++++++++</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 5:00 PM Tamara Mariotti <<a href="mailto:TMariotti@mvcc.edu">TMariotti@mvcc.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">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Scanning for us is currently being completed through our Print office. We send the book, he cuts it, scans it, I send a USB drive with the book, he re-binds the
book and sends all to our Accessibility office. Our Print office is still open as of now. It is one main staff working alone. We have a disability staff review the raw scans, use Omni page or other OCR software to review, and creates the book chapter by chapter
with the course. The cut and scan is not the hard part, it I the review and manipulation into an accessible file.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Tamara Mariotti<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<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, April 13, 2020 4:38 PM<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> [Athen] Conversion - Trying to make contingency plans<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hello Athenians!</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Our university has already announced that all summer classes will be online only. We still have no idea when we will be back in the office. We've almost developed our contingency plan for conversion, but
have run into a wall. So, I'm reaching out to you to hopefully gather some options. I'm sure we’re not alone in this! </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Any thoughts about the following situations would be greatly appreciated! I'm curious to know what contingency plans you're implementing for distance learners needing converted materials when
you cannot get a digital copy from a publisher nor a hard copy. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Also, is anyone working with the campus library to obtain digital files which can be remedited OR books for scanning? If so, I would appreciate information on how your process is structured,
who’s involved, who you are working with within the library, etc.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Situation 1: Student submitted a request and proof of ownership. Student is still waiting to receive delivery of said book. Files not available from any of our typical sources. Have attempted
to contact the publisher multiple times with no response (not sure if the publisher is even open at this time as they are in the UK. But this could just as easily be a small publishing house in the US.) No local source to purchase book. Book can be ordered,
but won’t arrive until finals week. Too late for the student!</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Situation 2: Student submits request and proof of ownership. Student is not local. Files not available from any of our typical sources. Have attempted to contact the publisher multiple times
with no response. No local source to purchase book. We have in the past had a student send us their book for us to scan/convert. (We cover all costs of shipping.) Once we have a book, we cannot chop the spine off (our print shop is closed and Kinko’s etc,
will not accept any outside paper source items). But we could still scan the book manually.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">With summer quickly approaching and the very short "semester" sessions on top of the current working remote order, we're trying to come up with some options. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">A student could take pictures of the pages and use SensusAccess to convert or send them to us. But that just doesn't seem like a viable option!</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Any thoughts shared would be greatly appreciated!</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Heidi</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">+++++++++++++++<br>
Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC<br>
Associate Director - AT<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>she, her, hers</i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Center for Educational Access at the University of Arkansas<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1 University of Arkansas, ARKU 209<br>
Fayetteville, AR 72701<br>
479.575.3104 phone<br>
479.575.7445 fax<br>
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