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Steve,
Please share your findings with us. I hoping to apply for a grant to get
some accessibility equipment into our librarian and I'd like to know what
other libraries are doing. Thanks
Karen McCandlish
Leroy V Good Library
Monroe Community College
"We possess powers of various sorts which we habitually fail to use. One of
these powers you are probably not using to the fullest extent is the magic
ability to praise people and inspire them with a realization of their latent
possibilities.
Abilities wither under criticism, they blossom under encouragement"
--Dale Carnegie
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From: Steve Thompson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 4:39 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: libraries and Kurzweil 3000; libraries
lending laptops
Hello:
There are numerous software applications available on a
workstation in our
community college library. These include a PC-integrated
Optelec CCTV; 21"
monitor; JAWS; Kurzweil 1000; ZoomText Xtra Level 2. All of
the former
provide access for students and community people with low
vision.
In an effort to serve students and community people with
reading
disabilities, I am considering adding Kurzweil 3000 to the
available
choices of assistive technology. To help my decision and to
work out
relationships with the rest of the campus, I am trying to
determine
whether libraries (in contrast to Personalized Access
Centers) place
Kurzweil 3000 on public PCs. If so, what staff relationships
exist between
the Library and the Access Centers and Academic computing
specialists?
Secondly, do any Libraries or Access Centers install
Kurzweil 3000 on
laptops and lend the installed software, scanner, and laptop
to students
who have a qualifying disability?
Thanks for your consideration.
Steve Thompson, Library Specialist
Rock Valley College Library
3301 N. Mulford Rd
Rockford IL 61114
815-636-4048
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