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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India. Of course, in India and other developing countries, the gap is even larger. Since we first began offering this option three years ago, Bookshare members have downloaded over 150,000 MP3 files from the collection.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. But, the Treaty does lean much more in the direction of a copyright exception without a commercial exemption.