[Blindtlk] Fwd: Free Bookshare Memberships!

[Jane Jordan (gmail)]

Thye same can be said of 18 or 26 year olds.  That doesn't cut it.   
If I could *afford* it, I would do it.  It's the principle of the  
thinbg, too.  If they're going to open it to blind students, it haed  
better be *all* blind students, regardless of aged.  If that means  
you have to provide proff and all that, so be it.  Age should not be  
a factor.  Perhaps income should instead, since you seem to think  
that all "gronw ups" can scrape up $25.


On Oct 4, 2007, at 8:37 PM, Joel Zimba wrote:

> 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
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