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First trip to China

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I'm now on my first-ever trip to mainland China, thanks to the Hadley School for the Blind twentieth anniversary of their China school. nonprofit to have a China branch, but truly amazing that it's been there for twenty years. It's impressive what people in Hong Kong have done with their tiny patch of China.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

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with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

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In this second installment of the three-part blog series (the first one is here ) on Bookshare International, I’m excited to share some of the ways in which our Bookshare library is part of the latest trends in the digital publishing world and is thus going deeper and serving many more people.

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Storymakers 2016 Winners

Tech Soup

We received more than 600 submissions from 35+ countries, including mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for the first time. Boost gives members access to special products and discounts offered through TechSoup. Best Library Story — Libraries Transform Teaser. Libraries have fans, tons of fans.

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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. Its mission is to offer products and services that help telecenters become self-sustainable while providing low-cost public access to computers and the Internet.

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SAP Gives Back

Tech Soup

SAP is helping to make a difference in the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup. movement, a world of 7 billion has implications for sustainability, urbanization, access to health services, and youth empowerment.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

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demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map.