Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
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.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 8, 2008
The China Braille Press was another impressive visit. We also got to visit (on the same campus), the Braille library, which was full of thousands of volumes of Braille. Not only do they produce Braille in quantity, but the Press is also developing affordable technology for blind people such as screenreaders and talking ebook players.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2010
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. •
Tech Soup
JUNE 27, 2016
We received more than 600 submissions from 35+ countries, including mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for the first time. Best Library Story — Libraries Transform Teaser. Libraries have fans, tons of fans. " That's what the Daviess County Public Library shows in its Libraries Transform Teaser.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 9, 2013
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.
EveryAction
MARCH 2, 2017
And even though Bao Bao is now back in China , her brother and parents (also Giant Pandas) are still the Zoo's main attraction here in DC. More official landmarks: Library of Congress (Capitol Hill). The National Zoo. If you are an animal lover and need a break during NTC, take a walk through the National Zoo.
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 3, 2011
Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. It is one of the rapidly emerging " BRIC " economies, along with Russia, India and China.
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