Comments on: Library for the Blind to Open Feb. 2 at AADL http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/01/27/library-for-the-blind-to-open-feb-2-at-aadl/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=library-for-the-blind-to-open-feb-2-at-aadl it's like being there Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: John Weise http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/01/27/library-for-the-blind-to-open-feb-2-at-aadl/comment-page-1/#comment-8638 John Weise Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:13:49 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=12646#comment-8638 The Daily article Anna mentions unfortunately doesn’t include a link to more information about how blind or otherwise disabled University members can access digitized books. So, I provide it here.

http://www.umich.edu/~sswd/resources/local/mbooks.html

Another important clarification is that in-copyright books are included as part of this special service.

]]> By: anna ercoli schnitzer http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/01/27/library-for-the-blind-to-open-feb-2-at-aadl/comment-page-1/#comment-8606 anna ercoli schnitzer Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:14:49 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=12646#comment-8606 The UM’s Google digitization project will make it much easier for visually impaired UM patrons and other Big-10 students to have access to book content from UM Libraries now:
Link to Michigan Daily article

]]> By: TeacherPatti http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/01/27/library-for-the-blind-to-open-feb-2-at-aadl/comment-page-1/#comment-8579 TeacherPatti Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:55:56 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=12646#comment-8579 I’m not sure. Basically, I have to hand type or else cut and paste something from the internet. Allegedly, they have scanners that you can scan the books directly in without having to retype them. That would be awesome.

]]> By: Edward Vielmetti http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/01/27/library-for-the-blind-to-open-feb-2-at-aadl/comment-page-1/#comment-8435 Edward Vielmetti Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:52:03 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=12646#comment-8435 Here’s a link to the Duxbury web site:

http://www.duxburysystems.com/

Patti, does your embosser have a digital input?

]]> By: TeacherPatti http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/01/27/library-for-the-blind-to-open-feb-2-at-aadl/comment-page-1/#comment-8417 TeacherPatti Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:00:43 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=12646#comment-8417 It’s so cool to come on here and read about JAWS. (It was begun around 1977 and guess what it was named after? Honestly). It is not the easiest software to use, but it’s better than nothing. (i.e. right now, it reads everything on the webpage…including ads and such).

It would be nice if they could somehow get the Duxbury program, which translates print into Braille and a Braille embosser so that more books can be made into Braille. I hear there is a way to hook up a scanner so you can scan the book, hit the magic Duxbury buttons and output it. (I have an embosser, but I don’t have a scanner so I just type the book in by hand, but that is time consuming).

]]> By: Fred Zimmerman http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/01/27/library-for-the-blind-to-open-feb-2-at-aadl/comment-page-1/#comment-8413 Fred Zimmerman Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:11:49 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=12646#comment-8413 I hope the library will make every effort to keep the Friends of the Library store in the downtown library. It is an important part of the whole experience and source of many fond memories that benefit the library.

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