Re: EMMA is open for business | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: John Burger, ASERL (jburger![]() |
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:38:44 -0700 (PDT) |
Good news, John! Thanks for the post. For people who are unfamiliar with EMMA, this development seems ripe for a webinar / web-demo. If you agree, please connect me with the right person who can lead such a presentation. We can also promote it via LAA to get a big audience. Thanks! Kind regards, --j.e.b. John Burger, Executive Director Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) 540 Asbury Circle, #316 Atlanta, Georgia 30322 -----Original Message----- From: aserl-accessibilityig <aserl-accessibilityig-bounces+jburger=aserl.org [at] aserl-lists.org> On Behalf Of Unsworth, John M (jmu2m) via aserl-accessibilityig Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 8:35 PM To: John Burger, ASERL <jburger [at] aserl.org> Cc: Email list for ASERL's Accessibility Interest Group <aserl-accessibilityig [at] aserl-lists.org> Subject: [aserl-accessibilityig] EMMA is open for business Hi folks, As you will all most likely already know, GA Tech's Access Text Network disappeared on April 1st, with no notice. Allegedly, the AAP was surprised-they'd been renegotiating their contract with GA Tech and apparently couldn't agree on terms. I believe AAP is looking for a new provider, but meanwhile EMMA has accelerated its opening from July to last Monday. Managers at disability services are encouraged to go here: https://emma.lib.virginia.edu/enrollment/new and create a request to enroll, using (please) an individual university email address. At that point, we'll create an organization in EMMA that this person (or designated others) will manage, so they can add and delete accounts for staff and student workers in their organization, also using individual university accounts. As part of enrollment, I will also subscribe them to the emma-users [at] virginia.edu<mailto:emma-users [at] virginia.edu> mailman list, which is currently being used both to provide updates to users of our beta service, and to relay requests for texts from one user to the community-requests that can be fulfilled using the single-file upload in EMMA. Just so far this week, we've enrolled over a hundred universities, colleges, and community colleges across the US and Canada (yay Marrakesh Treaty!) We're also encouraging new DSO members to seek out library partners as people who could help with a spreadsheet-based bulk upload process we've developed, in which we provide some nifty utilities for filling in bibliographic metadata-the purpose of this partnership would be to mitigate the burden of sharing. However, there are probably other ways that librarians could be (or already are) involved. For example at UVA I've learned that our ILL folks use an ILL workflow to fulfill digitization requests from our disability services office, out of our collections. I'm curious about whether other ILL operations in ASERL are doing similar things, or cooperating with one another in this channel, where a DSO staffer makes the request on behalf of a student with a qualified disability. John -- To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options, please visit: https://lists.aserl-lists.org/mailman/options/aserl-accessibilityig/jburger%40aserl.org
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EMMA is open for business Unsworth, John M (jmu2m), April 24 2024
- Re: EMMA is open for business John Burger, ASERL, April 24 2024
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