[access-uk] Re: Am I correct in thinking that people from the UK can not use bookshare.org?

  • From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tris-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 16:26:49 +0100

Does not NLB have some kind of affilliate membership with Library of Congress 
or other world wide institutions to borrow books from other lenders for it's 
own members if it doesn't have the title itself.  I thought that it might have 
done?

Regards.

Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
Technical Support
www.sightandsound.co.uk

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: James O'Dell 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 3:58 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: Am I correct in thinking that people from the UK can 
not use bookshare.org?


  >
  > Which then brings me to the reason for this message.  Assuming that I can 
  > not obtain a Braille copy of the book mentioned in the above paragraphs in 
  > he UK, is it possible and legal for someone in the UK to obtain a copy of 
  > a book by a British Author that has been made available to the visually 
  > Impaired in the USA via bookshare?

  possible, probably, but not legal under US law.

  James 

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