[Tabs] Fwd: Free Bookshare Memberships!

[David Andrews]

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>From: Lisa Friendly <lisaf at benetech.org>
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>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.
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>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.**
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>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).
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>Happy reading,
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>Lisa Friendly
>Manager, Bookshare.org
>LisaF at benetech.org