by Samuel Sennott
Have you seen the new Bookshare.org website?
Image from the home page of Bookshare.org
Did you know these three things about Bookshare.org?
- Bookshare™ is free for all U.S. students with qualifying disabilities. Student memberships are currently funded by an award from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).
- Bookshare dramatically increases the accessibility of books. Bookshare believes that people with disabilities deserve the same ease of access to books and periodicals that people without disabilities enjoy.
- A searchable online library. Bookshare offers more than 42,000 digital books, textbooks, teacher-recommended reading, periodicals and assistive technology tools.
If you would like to learn more about Bookshare.org and accessible books in general, I interviewed Jim Fruchterman, the CEO of Benetech, which is the organization behind Bookshare. You can find the article in the Summer 2008 issue of SpeakUP, the magazine of USSAAC. http://www.ussaac.org/speakup.html Additionally, in that article section, I interviewed Joe Rickerson, founder of The Accessible Book Collection, www.accessiblebookcollection.org and Joy Zabala, of CAST’s AIM Consortium, http://aim.cast.org. Just imagine what our students can do with resources like Bookshare.org combined with low cost netbooks!
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