[bookshare-discuss] Re: FW: McGill-Queens University Press in Canada Has Signed Our Agreement
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 21:56:09 -0700
Hi Karen,
There is some content accessible to folks worldwide, and some accessible to
folks in various different countries. So, though there is content only
available to folks in the U.S., folks from Canada might still want to
research what is available to them. I think they'll be surprised at the
amount of content that is available.
And, please remember, it is the publishers who determine who gets access to
books via Bookshare, not Bookshare.
Mayrie
-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Lewellen [mailto:klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 9:27 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: FW: McGill-Queens University Press in
Canada Has Signed Our Agreement
Hi all,
That's really terrific about these two Canadian publishers, but I wonder if
Canadian students have access to bookshare now yet?
Karen
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Roger Loran Bailey wrote:
> I almost agreed with you that I wish Bookshare had been around when I
> was in school. However, when I was in school I would not have
> qualified even if it had been around. I was a completely sighted
> student and I had to rely on libraries for sighted people. It is
> interesting to note, though, that as a sighted student I did not have
> access to any library as large as Bookshare. I am not sure what was
> the nearest library to me that would have been comparable in size to
> Bookshare and the few that were would have been only a few in the
> world, but I am pretty confident that the Library of Congress in
> Washington would have beat it, so that was probably the nearest one. I
> did not have access to the Library of Congress though. I wonder if the
> Carnegie Library comes close. Even if it does Bookshare will not be
> long in making it look pretty puny as fast as it is growing. I once
> read that the average public library has about forty thousand volumes. If
that is the case then Bookshare is now about four times as large as the
average public library.
> On 7/9/2012 11:28 PM, Dianne B. Phelps wrote:
>>
>> And Book Share does it again! Smile! I am so proud of Book Share and
>> wish it had been around when I was in school. I am making up for
>> being deprived then by reading constantly now, everything from
>> novels to instructional material.
>>
>> Thanks for all you do to give us this access.
>>
>> Dianne B. Phelps,
>>
>> Napa, California
>>
>> *From:*Madeleine Linares [mailto:Madeleinel@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> *Sent:* Monday, July 09, 2012 4:37 PM
>> *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> *Subject:* [bookshare-discuss] FW: McGill-Queens University Press in
>> Canada Has Signed Our Agreement
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just got this in from the Director of Content Acquisition:
>>
>> McGill-Queens University Press, recognized as Canada's leading
>> academic publisher, based in Montreal, Canada, has signed our
>> agreement, giving us world rights to their titles. A joint venture
>> of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and Queen's University in
>> Kingston, Ontario, the Press publishes original peer-reviewed
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review> works in most areas of the
>> social sciences <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_sciences> and
>> humanities <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities>. They have
>> 3,000 backlist titles in EPUB and publish 100 to 120 books a year.
>>
>> http://mqup.mcgill.ca/
>>
>> Exciting stuff!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Madeleine Linares
>>
>> Volunteer Coordinator
>>
>> Bookshare, a Benetech Initiative
>>
>> 650-644-3459
>>
>> madeleinel@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:madeleinel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Join us in celebrating our 10^th Anniversary!
>>
>> <http://blog.bookshare.org/2012/03/11/join-bookshares-worldwide-10th-
>> anniversary-celebration/>
>>
>>
>> Description: Title: Bookshare logo: Bringing Reading to Life for 10
>> Years
>>
>
>
>
>
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