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

Fri Jul 15 13:15:14 UTC 2011

I do suggest Bookshare in my presentation and suggest students check
with Learning Ally for current and previous editions of the text book
to be used, NIMAC does not offer post-secondary text books, the best
approach for producing accessible post-secondary text books in a
timely manner is being discussed by the AIM committee (Accessible
Instructional Materials), I believe they are due to issue
recommendations to congress in the fall.
I pushed for some math and science emphasis a while back, but I
havenot followed up since.

On 7/15/11, Ken Perry <kperry at blinksoft.com> wrote:
>  I used rfbd for all my college math books.  The calculus one at the time
> was one edition behind the one we were using in school.  The cool thing
> about the reader of  my calculus book was he was obviously some math wizard
> because he corrected a few of the examples and one of the graphs.
> Unfortunetly not all readers are this great at RFBD but you can find a lot
> of math books recorded.
>
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Lisa Bongiorno
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 7:36 AM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Availability of college level math text books
> inBraille, sufficient to recommend it as something to check?
>
> I deal with students from age 3 months to 18 (or 21 depending the age
> they graduate from High School).  I am assuming it's more difficult for
> college students to find and retrieve college books.   Does Bookshare,
> NIMAC, and Learning Ally offer college books?  What about ShareBraille
> at NFB?  I have posted some of my academic Braille books - especially
> math and science on ShareBraille.  I don't have the space to store some
> of the books I retrieve, and I hate to throw them out. So I post them in
> hopes that someone else could use them.
> Lisa
>
> --Original Message-----
> From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 5:21 PM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Availability of college level math text books
> inBraille, sufficient to recommend it as something to check?
>
> 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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