Textbooks and course materials can be scanned and electronically read into a Wave or MP3 format and burned onto a CD.  Textbooks can also be obtained on audiotape from the Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D)

To Request Textbooks from RFB&D (Books on CD)

As soon as you register for classes:

• Obtain book information from Alternate Media Specialist, Tania McKeown
• Provide the following book information
  • title
  • author
  • edition no.
  • publication date
  • ISBN no.
• Fill out and submit an Alternate Media Request Form.
• You may check for availability through the RFB&D Catalog Search and obtain the shelf number or ask that the Alternate Media Specialist do so for you.
• When your CD(s) arrives, they may be picked up at the front desk in the DSS Office (room 840).
• If the book is not available from RFB&D, you will be advised of additional options, including:
  • providing print texts to RFB&D for recording
  • contacting your Department of Rehabilitation counselor, if you are a client, to request funds to hire a reader to tape the book.
  • contacting Department of Rehabilitation, if you are blind, to apply for “non-client reader funds” to hire a reader
  • scanning your textbook

RFB&D tapes/CDs are loaned for one semester only.

RFB&D tapes/CDs must be returned by the last day of final exams unless other arrangements have been made with the Alternate Media Specialist.

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