Thanks to the Collection Development team and Kristina Cohen for their assistance with this post. No matter how old you are, nothing is more delightful than reading a good book or two over the holidays! A wonderful family activity is reading together. The books become traditions and children want them read year after year. If you are looking for something to read this holiday season, perhaps something different, the books below all look like good reads. Young Children The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson: The six horrible Herdmans, the worst children in the history of the world, take…
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One Machine, 2.6 Million Pages
With over 125,000 books in Bookshare (see post), where have they all come from? During our last maintenance call for our in-office scanner, the technician couldn’t believe that we’d scanned over 2.6 million pages with this four-year-old machine. We couldn’t believe it either. While more and more publishers are providing us with digital copies of their books to convert, we still do a healthy amount of processing content the old-fashioned way – chopping and scanning a physical book. Visitors to our processing offices are invited to “feed the beast” – under the watchful eyes of our scanning staff – and…
Leave a Comment150,000 Student Members, 125,000 books, and a New OSEP Award
We are excited to announce that Bookshare now serves over 150,000 student members and has over 125,000 books in the collection. Of these, 80,000 are educational titles that continue to pour into the library from publishers, as well as hundreds of student textbook requests that are fulfilled every month! These are major milestones that we have achieved a year ahead of schedule as part of our 5-year Bookshare for Education (B4E) award from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). We look forward to continuing our support of students with print disabilities. To this end, Benetech,…
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