If your documentation supports the accommodation of using textbooks in alternate format for your studies, you will be working with Amy Rosen-Brand, Associate Director of Disability Services, rosenba@buffalostate.edu to obtain the text titles in alternate format.
For students eligible for this accommodation, there are a few guidelines that must be followed.
First, when students utilize textbooks in alternate formats, they need to buy the textbook. You can buy the textbook from the campus bookstore, from an online retailer or another source. You need to provide proof of purchase of the item.
Secondly, students must complete, or have assistance with completing a Books on CD request form. Download the form here.
Some textbooks and literature titles are available from RFB&D, Reading for the Blind, Disabled and Dyslexic. http://www.rfbd.org/.
If the titles are not available from RFB&D, then other sources are contacted. If the titles are textbooks, then they are usually available in alternate format from the publisher. There are other avenues to pursue alternate formats of textbooks if the first two methods are not successful.
Keep in mind that alternately formatted items apply to textbooks, not trade books nor paperback books. There are a few sources online that have free access to e-text literature titles. One very good site is Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page.
