BOOKSHARE.ORG’S POST
SECONDARY TEXTBOOK SHARING PROGRAM
Presenter(s)
Janice
L. Carter
Benetech
Day
Phone: 650-475-5440 ext. 122
Email:
janice.c@benetech.org
Presenter#2
Jim
Marks
The
Day
Phone: 406-243-2243
Email:
marks@mso.umt.edu
Presenter
#3
Margaret
Londergan
812-856-2763
Email:
londerga@indiana.edu
Bookshare.org,
www.bookshare.org, provides another alternative for providing access to
textbooks for students with disabilities. Bookshare.org is an online community
that enables people with visual and other print disabilities to legally share
scanned books. It is designed exclusively for the use of the blind and other
individuals with print-related disabilities. Bookshare.org, launched in
February 2002, now has over 25,000 books in the collection — a collection shaped
by members and volunteers who submit books, including, but not limited to
general fiction and non—fiction, history, religion, psychology, programming,
philosophy, etc.
If
your school regularly scans textbooks for your students, you can legally share
your textbooks with Bookshare.org (and the rest of our on—line community),
thereby helping us increase our collection and making more accessible books
available nationwide. Plus, schools earn credits that help defray subscription
costs for student access to the complete Bookskhare.org repository.
Bookshare.org
is able to accept scanned textbooks from schools and organizations registered
on our site. Bookshare.org and schools nationwide have the opportunity to build
a productive and synergetic relationship by working together to increase the
collection of offerings to Pookshare.org subscribers and students. Submitting
post secondary texts to Bockshare.org leverages your efforts (what you scanned
for your students at your school is now available to all students nationwide),
eliminates duplication of effort (what you scanned for your students no other
member organization needs to scan as well), and through the nationwide
cooperative effort, increases the possibility that the publication your
students need will he available if some other member organization has scanned
it. In consideration for your submissions, you will receive credits for your
organization’s account with Bookshare.org that will defray subscription costs
for your students. Come hear how schools like the
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