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MARCH 7, 2017
I'm not a woman, but I am a wholehearted celebrant of International Women's Day. More About International Women's Day. International Women's Day came about in its current form in 1975. By 2011, American women surpassed men in gaining college degrees , including advanced degrees. In the U.S., Religion Tech.
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JUNE 12, 2014
The HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) is a partnership of academic and research institutions that had created (with help from Google ) a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. In September 2011, the Authors Guild sued the HathiTrust, alleging massive copyright violations. only files?is
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JUNE 16, 2011
Statement of Benetech to the 22nd Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property Organization June 15, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland • Greetings from California’s Silicon Valley!
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DECEMBER 3, 2011
The annual observance of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) is today, December 3rd. The theme of IDPD 2011 is “Together for a better world for all: Including persons with disabilities in development.” Our innovative approach has revolutionized the traditional library for people with print disabilities.
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JANUARY 11, 2013
In the first installment of this series, I described the Bookshare International library and where we hope to take it next. In 2011, we began collaborating with the Mada Center (Qatar Assistive Technology Center) to create accessible Arabic-language digital books.
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DECEMBER 8, 2011
President’s Update Fall 2011 Don’t be surprised, but we’re picking up the pace of change at Benetech! It is the world’s largest online accessible library, adding books at nearly four times the rate of the next most prolific U.S. library that serves people with print disabilities (on less than one-sixth the budget)!
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JANUARY 17, 2014
Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.
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