Keep up your good work.  Let meknow ways EASI might get involved.  Should
EASI try to purchase a booth?  How much?  Any bargains for nonprofits?
Norm
At 04:00 PM 1/8/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Dear Ellen,
>
>Thanks so much for this information! I knew you were active in this
direction from some of our previous conversations.  I know we'll see each
other at Midwinter, but I would especially like to sit down and pull some
ideas together with you.  I'll see you at your ALISE session on Thursday
morning and we can set something up!
>
>Best!
>Audrey
>
>>>> [log in to unmask] 01/05/01 22:33 PM >>>
>Dear Audrey:
>
>Fantastic idea!  Since I first went to ATIA in 1999 then CSUN in LA last
March
>and in my CSUN AT training I have been networking with many AT exhibitors and
>have urged everyone to exhibit at both ALA and the Texas Library Association.
>I also have encouraged ALA vendors and library automation vendors I meet
at ALA
>and the LITA Conference in November to exhibit, or at least attend AT
>conferences (and see what they are missing .. much better than Disney
World or
>Disneyland!).
>
>ERT and bringing the matter up at the ERT general membership meeting at
>Midwinter would be a good idea. As an ERT member I have talked with ERT
>officers and members and I believe also ALA Exhibits Manager Carl Ruffin
about
>the idea and in Texas have talked with Cindy Boyle, the TLA Exhibits Manager.
>Everyone has seemed most interested.
>
>In fact, some of the vendors I met at ATIA/CSUN came to ALA Chicago like
>AlphaSmart, Galileo, and Adapt-a-Lap. Seiko, now Wizcom Technologies,
>manufacturer of The Reading Pen, exhibited at an earlier ALA.  A
representative
>from Galileo/SensAbility Distributors, I believe, attended our LSPVPDF
meeting
>in Chicago.
>
>Mitake Holloman Burts, representing Keystone Library Automation Systems,
will be
>speaking at the AT program I organized for TLA on March 29th.
>
>I will be attending ATIA in Orlando on January24th-27th and CSUN on March
>22-24th and would be most happy to do whatever I can to help with the effort.
>In fact at ATIA, I will be leading a table talk at a luncheon - with vendors
>and other attendees, on enlisting ideas how the AT exhibitors can get into
>the mainstream market and increase their sales!  Any ALA literature I can
>distribute would be fantastic.
>
>One of the companies' main concerns of course has been the cost of
exhibiting,
>especially for the dedicated AT companies and personnel who are in the
>business, not for the profit motive but for the people - including
themselves -
>they serve. If participation in the Accessibility Pavilion could have a
>discounted price  ...
>
>I will bring with me to ALISE/Midwinter copies of the exhibitor guides (that
>list all of the exhibitors with contact info) from ATIA '99 and CSUN 2000.
>
>Thank you, Audrey!  You are making one of my dreams come true:  AT going
>completely mainstream marketplace where AT really should be. ...
>AT/accessibility is where it's AT!
>
>Ellen Perlow
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