[nabop] National Instructional Materials Access Center Opens!

[David Andrews]

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> >>> Julia Myers <jmyers at APH.ORG> 12/4/2006 12:05 PM >>>
>National Instructional Materials Access Center Opens!
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>At 12:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 3, 2006, the National
>Instructional
>Materials Access Center (NIMAC) began operations!
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>The mission of the NIMAC is to serve as the national repository of
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>publishers' electronic files of print instructional materials in
>the
>National Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) format. The NIMAC
>is th=
>e
>conduit through which the NIMAS files are made available to
>authorized =
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>users who convert them into accessible textbooks for elementary or
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>secondary school students with qualifying disabilities.
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>The NIMAC was established through the Individuals with Disabilities
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>Education Improvement Act (IDEA) of 2004, and it is funded by the
>United =
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>States Department of Education's Office of Special Education
>Projects.
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>More information about NIMAS and NIMAC is available here:
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>http://www.nimac.us/
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>http://nimas.cast.org/
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>National Instructional Materials Access Center
>1839 Frankfort Ave. Louisville, KY  40206-0085
>Ph.: (502) 899-2230      Web site: http://www.nimac.us      Email:
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>NIMAC at aph.org