[Blindtlk] Fwd: Free Bookshare Memberships!

[Joel Zimba]

nobody.  you're a grown-up.  cough up the $25


Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote:
> It's a great idea, but there is age discrimination.  I'm over the age  
> limmit and am considering going back to school.  So I am now left out  
> of the loop.  Just who *would* I contact to discuss that issue?
>
> Jane
>
>
> On Oct 3, 2007, at 9:06 PM, David Andrews wrote:
>
>   
>>> 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
>>>       
>> _______________________________________________
>> blindtlk mailing list
>> blindtlk at nfbnet.org
>> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindtlk
>>     
>
> _______________________________________________
> blindtlk mailing list
> blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindtlk
>
>
>   
-------------- next part --------------
nobody.  you're a grown-up.  cough up the $25
Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote:
It's a great idea, but there is age discrimination. I'm over the age limmit and am considering going back to school. So I am now left out of the loop. Just who *would* I contact to discuss that issue? Jane On Oct 3, 2007, at 9:06 PM, David Andrews wrote:
From: Lisa Friendly mailto:lisaf at benetech.org <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 http://www.bookshare.org 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 mailto:LisaF at benetech.org LisaF at benetech.org
_______________________________________________ blindtlk mailing list mailto:blindtlk at nfbnet.org blindtlk at nfbnet.org
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindtlk http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindtlk
_______________________________________________ blindtlk mailing list mailto:blindtlk at nfbnet.org blindtlk at nfbnet.org
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindtlk http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindtlk