[Arizona-students] Free Bookshare Memberships for students!

[Allison Hilliker]

Great point.  It's actually a federal rule.  That was not Bookshare's
decision.  They would love to give the membership to older students, but
the government is funding them and the department of ed made the age limit 
26.

Best,
Allison


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Bybee" <james at thebybees.net>
To: "'Arizona Association of Blind Students List'" 
<arizona-students at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Arizona-students] Free Bookshare Memberships for students!


> Well what if you are older than 26?  Guess you don't get a free membership
> than.
>
> James
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:arizona-students-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Allison Hilliker
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 6:18 PM
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> Subject: [Arizona-students] Free Bookshare Memberships for students!
>
> From: Lisa Friendly <lisaf at benetech.org>
>
> Thanks to a major grant from the Department of Education, effective 
> October
> 1, 2007, students with a qualifying print disability (NLS certification or
> completion of our proof of disability form) may obtain a free membership 
> to
> bookshare.org, the country's largest digital library for the print 
> disabled.
>
> At the current
> time, the library's collection contains 34,000 volumes, over 120 local
> newspapers and a few magazines.
>
> The free membership applies to students in the US who are age 26 or 
> younger
> at the K-12, college or graduate school level. Memberships can be obtained
> by your school for a group of students, or you can obtain your own
> membership.
> To sign up, go to www.bookshare.org. **Be sure to use the code OSEP when 
> you
> sign up, to indicate that this is a free membership for a student, funded 
> by
> a grant from OSEP, part of the Department of Education.**
>
> We plan to add thousands of textbooks to the Bookshare collection in the
> coming years. Many will have expert validators and textual annotations for
> figures and graphs. We also plan to begin capturing the graphics in a
> separate file, so that a student can review them with a reader or on their
> own for more information.
> These changes will happen during the course of the grant, which extends 
> over
> five years (assuming that Congress renews the funding every year).
>
> Happy reading,
>
> Lisa Friendly
> Manager, Bookshare.org
> LisaF at benetech.org
>
>
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