Bookshare Email ----- Original Message ----- From: Bookshare.org To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 4:04 AM Subject: Bookshare - NIMAC News!
Bookshare and NIMAC Announcement NIMAC books: To find NIMAC books, go to: http://nimac.us Then email us to request the book be added to Bookshare Dear Vedprakash Sharma: Have you heard the good news? There is a simple new NIMAC process that will enable Bookshare to provide NIMAC books to your students in a week or less at no cost, thanks to funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. You can now name Bookshare as one of your Authorized Users (AU) at the NIMAC. You need to sign an updated NIMAC coordination agreement, which the NIMAC recently sent directly to all NIMAC state coordinators, and then appoint Bookshare as an AU. The new coordination agreement is available online at the NIMAC's website at: http://www.nimac.us/2009_NIMAC_COORD.DOC. Then, when one of your students needs a book: 1.. Any public school staff person (including classroom teachers, special educators and librarians) can send an email to [email protected] requesting the book after confirming that it's in the NIMAC at: http://nimac.us. We just need to know the title, author, publisher and/or ISBN number. 2.. We'll download the book, convert it into accessible digital text formats (DAISY and BRF) within a week and let the requestor know the book is in Bookshare. 3.. The requestor logs into their Bookshare account and downloads the book for a qualified student with an IEP. Two different accessible software packages that read the books are also available free for download, as well as high quality synthetic speech. After you send the AU request to the NIMAC, we will inform those educators in your jurisdiction who are Bookshare Members about the process and we'll include the information in communications to appropriate personnel in all districts, regardless of Bookshare membership. Together, let's get accessible textbooks flowing smoothly from the NIMAC to students in a timely manner! Best regards, The Bookshare Team © Copyright 2008, Beneficent Technology, Inc. (The Benetech Initiative) Benetech is a California nonprofit organization. Your responses will be kept strictly confidential according to Bookshare.org’s privacy policy. This email was sent out by our market services provider. Bookshare.org does not keep a copy of your email address. For inquiries about upcoming events such as webinars, please email us at [email protected]. If you have further questions or encounter any problems, please email us at [email protected] or call us at 1-800-833-2753. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply to this message with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line or simply click on the following link: Unsubscribe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benetech 480 California Ave., Suite 201 Palo Alto, California 94306 US Read the VerticalResponse marketing policy. To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
