[Blindmath] Availability of college level math text books in Braille, sufficient to recommend it as something to check?

[Steve Jacobson]

Birkir,

I would suggest APH because I believe their "Louis" database tracks textbooks that are being transcribed around the country.  There are still agencies who 
have volunteers transcribing textbooks in braille.  For example, the Communication Center in Minnesota State Services for the Blind still doesit, at least they 
do when our state government isn't shut down because of a budget fight.  I could be wrong but I don't think National Braille Press does specialized 
textbooks.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:48:59 +0000, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:

>Hi all

>The Youth Slam lecture construction has certainly drawn my attention
>to various issues I had not thought off previously (a god thing, I
>suppose).
>One such is whether to even suggest inquiring through APH, National
>Braille Press or others for hardcopy versions of math text books in
>Braille.
>For one thing I have a calculus braille book 800 pges print, in 3
>boxes and need our storage space to keep boxes I amnot using, so this
>is very impractical.
>For another, I simply do not know if there s sufficient quantity
>available of books to suggest students try this.
>Either way I am listing it as a last resort, behind elecronic files
>from Publishers, InftyReader scanning of hard or electronic files,
>using readers and checking with RFB&D (Learning Ally) and Bookshare.

>If anyone has any comments on this, I'd be happy to see 'em.
>Thanks
>-Birkir
>p.s. great discussion threat on how to perform transformations and
>calculations, I will incorporate all suggestions into the eventual
>presentation.

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