1. Partnering to Better Serve Albertans with Print Disabilities
CELA and Bookshare
Partnering to Better Serve
Albertans with Print Disabilities
Michael Ciccone Executive Director – CELA

2. About CELA
Books in Accessible Formats to Canadians w Print disabilities thru public libraries
CELA supports over 2,000 libraries across the country by providing over 650,000 books, 150 magazines and 50 newspapers in accessible formats through a fully bilingual accessible web site and catalogue.
Partner with CNIB, Bookshare, et al
5th anniversary!

3. About CELA
Funded by provinces, territories and others across the country to serve over 97% of the Canadian population

4. Print Disabilities Prevents a person from using standard text to read
Visual: Blindness, AMD, Glaucoma, Diabetic Retinopathy
Learning: Dyslexia, brain injuries
Physical: Stroke, Arthritis, MS, Parkinson’s, spine injuries

5. Education Level by Severity of Disability
Source: StatsCan Table : Type of disability for persons with disabilities aged 15 years and over, by age group and sex, Canada, provinces and territories

6. After-tax Individual Income Below $40K by Severity of Disability
Source: StatsCan Table: : After-tax total income for persons with and without disabilities aged 25 years and over, by severity, by age group and sex, Canada

7. CELA Services Support for Member Libraries Support for Users
Collection Development
Web site and delivery infrastructure
Deposit Collections
CNIB Role:
Production
Distribution

8. CELA By the Numbers
Albertans using CELA services have borrowed, downloaded or accessed over 1.2 million items since 2014
120 Alberta libraries in Canada carry CELA DAISY CD deposit collections
111 Albertan educators representing 4,200 students have signed up for CELA services.
Close to 11,000 titles in French have been made available through our partnership with BAnQ
CELA sends our Open Book e-newsletter to over 9,000 patrons, 1,200 library staff and 600 educators nationwide
CELA/CNIB has added 2,800 titles from ABC Global Book Service-the WIPO pipeline for exchanging titles via the Marrakesh Treaty. Our collection is currently the most heavily sought, encompassing close to 60% of downloads.

9. Benetech, Inc.
Believe that people who experience barriers to printed material have the same right to timely information that others enjoy.
Pioneered the use of the ebook in 2002 to make reading accessible through Bookshare
Key funder is US Department of Education
Technology
Content Development
Libraries should be available to ALL people worldwide

10. What is Bookshare? Offered by Benetech, Inc.
6/27/2011
Offered by Benetech, Inc.
World’s largest library of ebooks for people with disabilities that prevent reading of printed books
Blind, low vision, dyslexic, mobility impairment
Over 550,000 titles available
Over 850 publishers adding 5,000 books/month
Books in audio, synchronized text and audio, e-braille, ePub, and MS Word
Books in 44 languages, support for many more languages
Must have print disability to access (POD Required)
Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials

11. How Does Bookshare Work?
National Copyright Exceptions enable books to be provided to people with disabilities
Section 121 and Section 121a of the US Copyright law
Exclusively for use by people who are blind, visually impaired, reading impaired
Must be made on a non-profit basis
Books must list copyright owner and publication date.
Rights to offer books in other countries including Canada
In Philippines, and Marrakesh

12. Old CELA System Integrated Library System V-Smart from Infor
CMS – Iguana
Not designed for our accessibility needs
Lacked needed functionality
Not responsive to mobile devices
SLOW

13. Enter Bookshare Offered Private Label Platform
Integration of CELA and Bookshare Collections
Consolidation of formats into one record
Simpler automatic registration process
Better statistics
Better tools for collections promotion
Combines functionality that currently resides in several separate databases

14. Woops! Privacy
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15. Enter Bookshare North
Private Label Platform/Local Open Source Interface
API Connections
All patron and transaction data on Canadian servers
CELA controls the data and the flow

16. Patron Benefits A clean, simplified website that is easy to navigate
A mobile-responsive interface to make downloading books directly to accessible reading apps faster and easier
Consolidated search records to simplify finding the books patrons want in the formats they need
A single, streamlined registration process for both CELA and Bookshare
Search available through apps and players
Single login

17. Library Benefits
Improved discovery tools to allow for better promotion of titles, including integration with newsletter
Enhanced privacy and improved protection for copyright laws
More robust statistics reporting
Improved granular data gathering
Management of Deposit Collections improved
Single login

18. Lost Functionality Bookshare Dublin Core Feeds from publishers in ONIX
MARC records still produced for deposit and LAC
No “on order” records

19. What’s Not Changing
Commitment to provide your patrons with a comprehensive collection of accessible reading materials and excellent customer service
Services patrons count on, such as home delivery, single use braille, auto selection of titles, and direct downloads will continue
Our growing collection, plus the Bookshare collection, will be available in the formats of their choice, as they always have been
Committed to ensuring patron privacy, while also enhancing protections for the materials we produce thanks to the provisions in Canadian Copyright Act.

20. Sneak Peaks - Recommendations

21. Recommendations– Mobile

22. Sneak Peak – Bib Record

23. Bib Record - Mobile

24. Training

25. Launch Date Originally Jan 15 Scheduled to launch Tuesday, March 5
Likely a soft launch with minor services delayed a bit
Full functionality later this month

26. CELA & CNIB
CNIB Technology Staff, under contract to CELA, are behind the creation of the local solution
Expertise brought by this group and that of Bookshare is immeasurable in terms of accessibility and library service
Once launched, entire CELA system and collection will no longer by on CNIB servers
Catalyst to CELA’s full autonomy

27. Virtual Organization As of April 1, CELA’s office will be virtual
Currently have an office in the CNIB Building in Toronto
Not much will change for library and patron communication
Staff will primarily be working from home

28. Award Finalist
Finalist for 2019 Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing.
United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
The annual award recognizes leadership and achievements in advancing the accessibility of e- books and other digital materials.

29. Marrakesh Treaty
Treaty that allows the cross-border exchange of materials produced under copyright exceptions for accessible materials
No clearance required from copyright holder
US recently signed – materials from National Library Service at Library of Congress available May 8 through ABC Global Exchange
CELA is a member of the exchange
Should help to increase the number of titles available to library patrons using CELA services
Stay tuned…

30. eBound Canada Partnership
Digital arm of the Association of Canadian Publishers
CNIB currently producing audiobooks for eBound publishers
CELA helped to facilitate the agreement - materials produced will be added to the CELA collection at no cost
Publishers receive quality audio recording for commercial and library sales, accessible epubs and the sharing of best practices
The Audible Issue.
More to come…

31. Phone it Forward
CNIB seeks donations of smart phones, which will be refurbished, loaded with relevant apps, distributed to CNIB clients with vision loss, who will be trained on use of the devices.
In Phase 1 of the partnership, libraries will serve as a pick-up point for the envelopes needed to donate the phones. Plans underway for 15 library systems.
In Phase 2, Libraries will provide meeting space for training.
Draw persons with print disabilities into the library space and to showcase accessible services.

32. Questions and Contact Info
Celalibrary.ca
Facebook:
Phone it Forward: