Page 9, Some Useful Web Sites

 

Useful Web Sites

This is a small sampling of the online resources we have found most useful. It is by no means inclusive, and failure to find a name on the list does not mean disfavor. We welcome suggestions of other links to add. We hope that this will give you a quick way to find resources without much searching.

 

Music Resources and Major Players in the field

Blindness Related

Library of Congress Voyager Online Catalog
E-mail NLS Music Section: nlsm@loc.gov

American Printing House Louis catalog http://www.aph.org/louis.htm

National Braille Association http://www.nationalbraille.org/

Library Reproduction Service: http://www.lrs-largeprint.com/

Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic http://www.rfbd.org/

National Library for the Blind, England http://www.nlbuk.org

Hadley School for the Blind (Braille music correspondence course) http://www.hadley-school.org

MENVI Members Web Site: http://www.superior-software.com/menvi

Dancing Dots http://www.dancingdots.com

Opus Technologies http://www.opustec.com

Computers to Help People, Inc.(can braille books combining music with text) http://www.chpi.org
On this Site: link to Comprehensive Resource List

 

Sources of Music Files

Classical Music Archives http://www.classicalarchives.com

Midi Farm: http://www.midifarm.com

Midiworld: http://www.midiworld.com
PRS: http://www.prs.net
MP3 Files: http://www.karadar.it/mp3composer/search.asp

Software and Utilities

Cakewalk, Inc. http://www.cakewalk.com

Creative Labs http://www.creative.com

Dancing Dots http://www.dancingdots.com

Bryan Hartgen (author of scripts for Chatterbox) http://hartgen.org

Sonic Foundry (makers of Sound Forge) http://www.sonicfoundry.com

Syntrillium (makers of Cool Edit http://www.syntrillium.com

General Resources on Blindness

American Foundation for the Blind (information, career planning, etc.) http://www.afb.org

American Printing House for the Blind (books, aids and appliances, etc.) http://www.aph.org

Fred's Head Database, (by American Printing House, lots of how-to tips and articles helpful to blind people and teachers.) http://www.aph.org/fh/index.html

Blindskills (Dialogue Magazine, information for people of all ages, including scholarship information and career planning) http://www.blindskills.com

Independent Living Aids (Just one example of a mail-order store for aids and appliances)

Ann Morris Enterprises (distributor of many useful products and gifts) http://www.annmorris.com

National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress (Braille and recorded books) http://www.loc.gov/nls

Bookshare (scanned books online for subscribing members) http://www.bookshare.org

B&R Samizdat Express, compiles books in the public domain found on the Internet on CD-ROM, http://www.samizdat.com

National Braille Press (how-to computer books, Children's Book of the Month Club) http://www.braille.com

Seedlings Braille Books for Children

On this site: sources of funding

Students' Favorites

ACB Radio http://www.acbradio.org

Unofficial DEC-Talk Site: http://members.optusnet.com.au/samjtaylor/rachel/

Student Christopher Wright's Site: http://www.freewebs.com/chrisw1

Friends

Music by Laurel Jean http://www.laureljean.com/

World Contact, http://www.worldcontact.com (Tom Williams is our web building consultant and webmaster)


Foundations Supporting the National Resource Center

We include the links below not just to acknowledge and say thank you, but also so you can read about the many wonderful projects they are helping make possible.

National Endowment for the Arts http://www.arts.gov/

NEC Foundation of America (recommended reading) http://www.necfoundation.org/

Delta Gamma Foundation

 

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