[Blindtlk] Please Advise Me Regarding this Textbook Situation

[Vejas Vasiliauskas]

Hi,
Thanks. I already have a Bookshare account, and did not see it on there. I will see about Learning Ally if the first 2 options do not work.
Vejas 

> On Jan 24, 2017, at 04:02, Danielle Ledet via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Oh by this I mean actually signing up with BookShare.org. It's free if
> you are a student at a school or university. Are you a member of
> Learning Ally? they might be there. Not sure how much success you'll
> have with finding already accessible foreign language books though.
> 
>> On 1/24/17, Danielle Ledet <singingmywayin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, this is a first for me. I have never known DSS to order texts,
>> but what you propose seems the logical route to take. Not sure what
>> else I would do short of going to the campus bookstore and purchasing
>> the books. Normally, that's what takes place. Or, you could grab a
>> BookShare membership and see if what you need is there. Good luck
>> whatever you choose to do!
>> 
>>> On 1/24/17, Vejas Vasiliauskas via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> My Spanish hard copy textbooks finally arrived last week. I have the
>>> chapters I need, but  there are some, for future chapters, that have not
>>> yet
>>> arrived.
>>> DSS ordered the textbooks and obviously do not know where they are, it's
>>> not
>>> their class so not their responsibility. My school's system for sorting
>>> out
>>> mail is also very poor, which potentially means that the book might be
>>> there.  DSS has expressed their constant frustration of this system, but
>>> again, are powerless to change it.
>>> What do you all think I can do to see where my textbooks are?
>>> My thoughts are to first contact the company and see if these books have
>>> been shipped out, because there is a possibility they may not have been.
>>> Then I could see if the books have a tracking number. My next course of
>>> action would be to conntact the mail center at school and see if these
>>> arrived, although they do seem very disorganized.
>>> What do you all think? Is this the course of action you would take? If
>>> not,
>>> what would you do?
>>> Vejas
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> How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and
> tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will
> have been all of these.
> George Washington Carver
> Email: singingmywayin at gmail.com
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