[nabs-l] bard web site

[Peter Donahue]

Good morning everyone,

    What you mean is that there would not be a Braille and talking book Web 
site still available despite the government shutdown. The folks that really 
shut BARD down is none other than us. Society didn't tell us to be overly 
dependent on the government to provide this and other services. Folks we're 
doing that to ourselves and need to stop being overly dependent on others to 
fund and operate these programs for us. Thank God for the likes of Jim 
Fructerman, Ray Kurzweil, and others. This should be an opportunity  for us 
to rediscover what Bookshare.org and Blio have to offer. It should also 
cause us to put our thinking caps on and find ways to protect BARD and other 
services we've come to depend on from government shutdowns. A yearly 
subscription to Bookshare.org is only $50.00. Forgo some of the booz and the 
smokes and subscribe so the books can keep coming to you. These 
subscriptions are far superior to BARD. We have found lots of books on 
Bookshare.org not available through BARD. It's $50.00 well-spent if you 
asked us. Since we're both Bookshare.org members the yearly charge is 
$100.00 and we find the money to keep our subscriptions active. Furthermore 
I believe Bookshare.org still has the free student membership. Check it out.

    If we keep going down the path of stinking thinking the next time 
there's another federal shutdown we'll have no one but ourselves to blame 
because we failed to protect BARD and other services we rely on from such 
mayhem.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "I. C. Bray" <i.c.bray at win.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] bard web site


You would not have a braille / audio book collection if not for the federal
government.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com>
To: <jsoro620 at gmail.com>; "National Association of Blind Students mailing
list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] bard web site


: Good evening,
:
:    Paying a subscription to protect our accessible book collections from
: governmental boondoggling is okay in my book. Bring it on!
:
: Peter Donahue
:
: ----- Original Message ----- 
: From: "Joe" <jsoro620 at gmail.com>
: To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'"
: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
: Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 7:16 PM
: Subject: Re: [nabs-l] bard web site
:
:
: I'm all for making government much smaller, but privatizing the NLS arm of
: the LOC is probably not the best case scenario. People would have to pay,
: not an issue for gainfully employed people but certainly a problem for the
: 70% unemployed folks already on a low income. Me, I'm really not sure why
: the BARD site is down. Skeleton crews consist of at least a few IT staff,
: and it seems odd there is not a single person who can keep an eye on the
: servers. Then again, the government is dumb enough to try to rope off
: national monuments here in DC that can easily be accessed outside. Red,
: blue, they're all a little cray cray.
:
: Joe
:
: -----Original Message-----
: From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Peter Donahue
: Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 7:29 PM
: To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
: Subject: Re: [nabs-l] bard web site
:
: Good evening everyone,
:
:    Perhaps it's time to privatize the NLS making it immune to government
: shutdowns in the future. Bookshare.org and BLIO are our shining stars
during
: this time so we need not be without books to read.
:
: Peter Donahue
:
:
: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "Kirt" <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com>
: To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
: Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 5:48 PM
: Subject: Re: [nabs-l] bard web site
:
:
: That entirely depends on when Congress decides to get it's act together.
Ask
:
: your representative. :-)
:
: Sent from my iPhone
:
: > On Oct 1, 2013, at 4:45 PM, "justin williams"
<justin.williams2 at gmail.com>
:
: > wrote:
: >
: > Do we know when the bard site will be up again?
: >
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