[Blindtlk] Fwd: Free Bookshare Memberships!

[Alan Wheeler]

Um, but she is also a student, and therefore, probably in a financial pinch 
like most students.  Since this exclusion also bothers me, I take some 
exception with your attitude.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Zimba" <jzimba at cavtel.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Fwd: Free Bookshare Memberships!


> 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
>>>>
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