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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The View from an Authorized Entity Many Bookshare users (and potential Bookshare users!) However, as the founder of the Bookshare online library, we have a great deal at stake in how the Treaty gets implemented. So, this means books, periodicals and other similar textual works, including audio versions of those titles.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. But, some companies want to empty the library shelves and insist that only books that can’t be purchased are allowed to be stocked in such libraries. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

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The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

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What began as a small online library, with a collection built in large part by its users, is now the primary national supplier of electronic accessible educational materials for students with print disabilities. and a new audio option for Spanish titles. This has led to advancements that benefit everyone.

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Imagery and Authenticity

Non Profit Quarterly

Danielle Coates-Connor: And you, Devyn, have been creating a visionary library of images with all of the branding work that you’ve done at Edge Leadership, with all of the illustration work that you’ve done for Nonprofit Quarterly and for The Voice Lab. And so it does create kind of a quietness of visual language.

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Raspberry Pi for Educators

Tech Soup

For educational nonprofits, schools, and libraries, Raspberry Pi is very useful for teaching students about electronics, computing, and many other technical subjects for a price that's far less than a new computer. Libraries have also experimented with replacing terminals with smaller footprint Raspberry Pi computers. Peripherals.

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Bookshare.org.in (India)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Dipendra has been a subscriber to Bookshare.org for our O'Reilly technical titles, but we're trying to move beyond these into serving a full range of books with publisher and author permissions. Narrators were recording digital audio books in both English and Hindi while I was there.

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