[bksvol-discuss] Re: Information for our Library?
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:04:09 -0800 (PST)
Both Janice and, I think, Anastasia--or was it
Lissi--wrote good articles, andI need to find them,
too, in case I'm able to present something to Commnity
Connections--or I may just ask for permission to
submit one of those articles to the Commnity
Connection (a local group for seniors) newsletter.
Cindy
--- Gerald Hovas <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Katie,
>
> The following press announcement was sent out by
> Bookshare in early
> November. Perhaps Bookshare has something else
> though which might be more
> what you're looking for. I'd suggest contacting
> John at either
> support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or john.g@xxxxxxxxxxxx and
> asking if the staff happens
> to have something else that might be better suited
> to give to your local
> library.
>
> HTH
>
> Gerald
>
> BOOKSHARE.ORG PUTS 30,000 ACCESSIBLE BOOKS ONLINE
> FOR DISABLED READERS
>
> Thousands of Volunteers Select and Scan Bestsellers
> For the World's Largest
> Accessible Online Library
>
> Palo Alto, Calif., November 8, 2006 - Bookshare.org
> announced this week that
> its network of volunteers has succeeded in scanning
> 30,000 books creating
> the world's largest accessible online library.
> Thousands of Bookshare.org
> volunteers, including educators and librarians,
> select their favorite books
> and legally convert these texts to digital formats
> that can be used by
> people with print disabilities such as dyslexia and
> visual impairment.
>
> The entire Bookshare.org online library can be
> downloaded to Braille
> printers, portable Braille devices and software that
> reads aloud in a
> synthesized human voice. Among the titles are
> bestsellers including Criss
> Cross, the 2006 Newbery Medal winner for children's
> literature. Information
> about the latest titles can be found at
> http://www.bookshare.org.
>
> "There are thousands of people who couldn't read
> this literature without
> something like Bookshare.org, it opens up a whole
> new world to them," says
> Bookshare.org volunteer Matthew Devcich, 16, of
> Chantilly, Virginia. "You
> are helping people across the nation and it's a
> great way to learn today's
> technology."
>
> Devcich, who has a visual disability, created an
> Eagle Scout leadership
> service project that organized 21 mostly teenage
> volunteers to scan and
> proofread 24 books. Devcich listens to the
> Bookshare.org ebooks which allow
> him to reduce eye strain while he reads the text
> online in an enlarged font.
> "It helps me read a great deal faster," says
> Devcich.
>
> The subscription-based Bookshare.org digital library
> is the first literacy
> program developed by Benetech, a nonprofit based in
> Palo Alto, California.
> "It's people like Matthew who have made 30,000 books
> available at
> Bookshare.org today," said Janice Carter, Director
> of Benetech's Literacy
> Programs. "Thanks to the ongoing support of the
> Bookshare.org volunteer
> community, we continue to add about 100 new books
> each week."
>
> The Benetech literacy team will present their
> library of accessible books
> and periodicals at the annual conference of The
> International Dyslexia
> Association conference held at the Indiana
> Convention Center in
> Indianapolis, Indiana from November 8-11.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Katie Hill
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:45 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Information for our
> Library?
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Is there a general write up on Bookshare I could
> give my local library.
> They had never heard of bookshare and I thought it
> would be nice to get them
> some info.
>
>
> Katie Hill
> "Come to the edge"
>
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>
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>
> "We can't; We're afraid"
>
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>
> And they came.
>
> And he pushed them.
>
> And they flew.
>
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