[nabs-l] Business cards

[Kaiti Shelton]

Hi all,

I've been getting a lot of business cards lately, and I anticipate I
will only get more as I start doing field experience and attending
more professional conferences.  I always feel weird accepting business
cards because knowing me, if something isn't either electronic or
braille I'm going to lose it, or put it in my wallet and have no clue
what it is when I get it out later.  I try to take down notes in my
notetaker whenever I can, but sometimes people don't understand why I
want to write down their email address or something when they could
just give me their business card.  (It happens, even with the cane).
For example, in my university library the other day I was working with
a reference specialist to access some databases.  I was having a lot
of trouble because something eeither with Jaws, my internet explorer
settings, or both is causing accessibility issues.  He knew I used
jaws, but at the end he was like, "Have a business card and email me
so we can set up a time to fix this.  My address is on the card."

Has anyone come up with a good way to manage these cards, or to work
around taking the cards at all in lieu of electronic notation of the
information without being rude or too assertive?

-- 
Kaiti