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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. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility.

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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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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The mission of the Lavelle Fund is to support programs that help people with visual impairments, including blindness, lead independent, productive lives. In this grantmaking area, too, The Fund was key to Bookshare’s global expansion and to our ability to better serve low-income users, in developing and developed countries alike.

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What is Skills Management?

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Effective decision-making can help you be more productive by reducing stress and improving efficiency. Time Management The better you manage your time, the more productive and efficient you will be as a manager. Creating a library of content, including video, audio, webinars, ebooks, etc.,

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What is Skills Management?

Gyrus

Effective decision-making can help you be more productive by reducing stress and improving efficiency. Time Management The better you manage your time, the more productive and efficient you will be as a manager. Creating a library of content, including video, audio, webinars, ebooks, etc.,

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What is Skills Management?

Gyrus

Effective decision-making can help you be more productive by reducing stress and improving efficiency. Time Management The better you manage your time, the more productive and efficient you will be as a manager. Creating a library of content, including video, audio, webinars, ebooks, etc.,

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TechSoup Global Donor Partner Profile: BetterWorld Telecom

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They supply charities, libraries and foundations with discounted Cisco and Polycom office phones. They also offer a discounted audio conferencing. TechSoup's Chief Business Development Officer, Gayle Carpentier, had been searching for a way to offer phone systems for nonprofits and libraries for a long time.

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