E-BOOKS AND SPECIAL POPULATIONS

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E-BOOKS AND SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Janet Woodbridge, Manager of Special Population
Services - jwoodbridge_at_city.windsor.on.ca
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OVERVIEW

• WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE
• HOW CAN THEY BE USED IN THE FUTURE?
• WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN TO IMPROVE E-BOOKS FOR OUR
  SPECIAL POPULATION CUSTOMERS

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Rocket e-books

• Findings from our low vision customers
• Heavy, heavier than a hardcover
• Print too small even on largest setting
• System cumbersome to use
• Customers do not want to carry a
• separate device

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NetLibrary Resources

• Wonderful potential as an alternate to large
  print and talking books
• Informational resources
• current and available
• Wide subject coverage for researcher

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NetLibrary

• With the revisions to Net
• Library their homepage is now scalable.
  
• It is important that
• your librarys
• homepage is
• scalable.

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NetLibrary

• From NetLibrary pages are now scalable
• Web page uses too many frames so adaptive
  technology programs, Jaws, cannot read
• Login procedures confusing
• Registration through library not convenient
• Font sizes too small

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Once in NetLibrary

• Currently e-books are in either Text or PDF
  format.
• Moving to only PDF format
• Problem adaptive technology programs such as
  Jaws will only read text files
• PDF files can be increased 6400
• Zoomtext will work with either text
• or PDF files 16X

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Databases

• Accessibility varies with the product
• If the page is scalable then the largest setting
  is bolder and easier to read.
• Some offer the articles in PDF format in which
  size can be increased.

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What to look for

• Scalable web pages
• Websites with reduced frames
• Ease of access for logging into
• e-books