[Athen] Hard Copy Braille Textbook Donations?

[Ali Steenis via athen-list]

Hi all,

Apologies for those seeing this cross posted! We have a few older editions of college textbooks in hard copy braille that we are looking to rehome. Has anyone had success in donating college-level textbooks in braille somewhere? Is there any interest in posting a list of what we have to see if other schools might need it?

I have already contacted our state talking book and braille library, looked into ShareBraille.org (mainly children's books), and considered sending books to the NFB braille book fair (they don't take textbooks).

As we all know, creating these books, especially the many volumes of math content with tactile graphics, is extremely expensive. It seems a waste to recycle or destroy them when braille literacy around the world is far lower than it should be and access to materials is a primary contributor to the issue.

Our department policy is that students keep hard copy braille books but the inventory we have now is from before this policy was in place.

Any ideas or strategies?

Warmly,

Ali Steenis
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