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...University has announced plans to convert the units, which are currently occupied by tenants who pay below-market rent, to student and faculty housing...
Visually impaired students can benefit from large monitors, talking computers and a Braille printer. For course items such as textbooks which are not computerized, the ATL can scan in material for students and convert it into electronic form. Blind students can then choose to enlarge the text on the monitor or have the computer read the text to them...
Some of this technology has been around for several years, such as the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software needed to convert scanned texts and handouts into electronic text...
...fact, the ATL has been negotiating with book publishers to give it textbooks in electronic form to save the time and labor required to scan and convert textbooks itself. But publishers have balked at the idea, primarily because they fear people will widely distribute these books electronically...
...well be that the University needs more space--for classrooms and living quarters, as well as for offices. However, why can the University not find less sensitive spaces to convert into offices? Or why not build a new building? Since the early '80's the University has wisely placed a moratorium on most new construction and instead concentrated on upgrading its existing buildings. It may be time, however, to lift this moratorium in order to build functional yet architecturally elegant new buildings...