Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
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. You can read more about our position in the Amicus Brief , which we filed jointly with our peer organization, Learning Ally.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
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.
Tech Soup
MAY 16, 2017
Nonprofit, church, library, and foundation offices are vulnerable to this malware, which can lock up your IT system until a ransom is paid. The malware then locks up and encrypts the files in the IT system and holds them for ransom until a payment is made, usually demanded in Bitcoin. This of course limits the spread of the infection.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 15, 2012
The teacher could then add alternate image descriptions and download the book again when they are done. Benetech's digital Bookshare library is currently using Poet to add image descriptions for its accessible ebooks used by people with print disabilities.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 8, 2010
Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. Having only been incorporated for a year and receiving just last week an anonymous donation to cover our 501c3 filing, we still have a little way to go before we get there. We’re not even talking about “radical librarians.”
Get Fully Funded
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Cloud storage: For file sharing and storage, you can start with Drive through Google Workspace, so all documents can be stored in a convenient, accessible place. If you want greater security than Drive offers, Dropbox and Box are popular alternatives. And don’t worry – storing files in the cloud is perfectly safe.
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