In California, the Chancellor's office for the communituy colleges has
funded an "Alternate Text Production Center" that is being built as we
speak.  It will be fully operational by fall of 2002, at which time they
will be the contact point for all 104+ California Community Colleges to
request electronic texts from publishers.  California passed law AB422 which
can be seen at: http://www.htctu.fhda.edu/AB422.html
perhaps other states should do the same thing.

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Laura G. Ingram      mailto:[log in to unmask]
Access Specialist
3600 M Street
Merced CA 95348
(209) 381-6406


-----Original Message-----
From: EILEEN HADDON [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 9:04 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Electronic books


>>> [log in to unmask] 01/02/02 11:16AM >>>
I have a list of contacts at a lot of publishers, if anyone is interested.
It has been most helpful.  I got it from The California High Tech Center
Training Unit...their URL is http://www.htctu.fhda.edu/ and the staff there
is most helpful.  Check them out and let me know if you would like a copy of
that list.

In states where the publishers are not legally required to make their
textbooks available in alternative format, it is just about impossible to
obtain them. Knowing that they *have* the format and just aren't making them
available for everybody who needs them makes it even more frustrating. While
we're waiting and hoping for Federal legislation to resolve this, what have
people in other states done to obtain these alternative formats?

Thank you,

Eileen Haddon :)

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Eileen C. Haddon, ATP
Vermont Assistive Technology Project
Vermont Technical College
Randolph Center, VT  05061
Phone: 802-728-1520 / Fax: 802-728-1390

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