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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. It creates an opportunity to have public benefit being balanced with business interests.

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Objecting to Accessibility Weaseling

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Wouldn''t that create more demand for our Bookshare online library? It sure would create more demand for Bookshare in the future, but our primary goal is not to sustain Bookshare, although we will as long as Bookshare is needed.

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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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Creating a Culture of Storytelling Webinar Recap

Tech Soup

TechSoup kicked off its 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge with the webinar Creating a Culture of Storytelling. The webinar provided case studies of how one nonprofit and one library created storytelling cultures within their organizations. How to Create a Culture of Storytelling. Escondido Library's LibraryYOU.

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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

However, as the founder of the Bookshare online library, we have a great deal at stake in how the Treaty gets implemented. First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances.

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. We’ve been doing this for close to five years and have accumulated over 2,000 publications. Connections between the publications are more important than strict regional boundaries. Geography is fluid, though.

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4 Tips to Optimize Your Healthcare Organization Website

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With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination campaigns capturing public attention, accurate, user-friendly healthcare websites are more crucial than ever. To create a user journey map, follow these steps: Create personas for each segment of your website’s visitors.