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How to Make This Your Most Successful Library Giving Day

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Library Giving Day is an international one-day fundraising event that could significantly boost your library’s fundraising potential. How can you plan a more successful Library Giving Day? In 2022 alone, Library Giving Day reported 12,168 total donations adding up to $1.6 Check out what other libraries have done.

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Apply for the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellowship

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The attempt thrust digital inequity into the public’s awareness. Cleveland, OH: 2 positions (sponsored by The Cleveland Foundation). Ellie Avis, a fellow in Josephine County, OR, launched a hotspot lending program that allows library patrons to bring their connectivity home. adults do not use home broadband.

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Support Bookshare for Veterans

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For them, Bookshare —Benetech’s Global Literacy initiative and the world’s largest accessible digital library for people with print disabilities—opens up a lifeline to reading. SEChallenge a11y accessibility Bookshare crowdfunding CrowdRise Huffington Post print disabilities Reading Skoll Foundation veterans'

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Second, we are stepping up our efforts to increase the awareness of this critical issue and practical actions that can be taken. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact.

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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

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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. Consequently, it is reasonable for the Libraries to retain both the text and image copies. in addition to the text?only

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

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More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. Martus Desktop 4.5 and Mobile Martus 1.2

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Symantec Gives Back

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Symantec gives a lot back to the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup — See what organizations like yours are saying about their donated Symantec products. Symantec also has an abundance of other corporate social responsibility efforts going on as well.

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