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Quick Facts About RFB&D
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Quick Facts and Figures for Fiscal Year 2007
For nearly 60 years, RFB&D
has been an invaluable educational resource, enabling those with
print disabilities to complete their educations, advance their
careers, and gain self-esteem.
RFB&D was established in 1948
by Anne T. Macdonald to provide recorded textbooks to veterans
blinded in World War II. We were legally incorporated in 1951.
RFB&D's materials are for
all people who cannot effectively read standard print because
of a visual impairment, learning disability or other physical
disability.
More than 70 percent of those
served by RFB&D last year were identified as having a learning
disability. This member population is growing rapidly as serious
learning disabilities are better diagnosed.
In fiscal year 2007, more than
7,071 volunteers, working in RFB&D's 29 recording studios
across the United States, contributed 388,935 hours of
their time recording 6,189 new titles. There are numerous
volunteer opportunities available throughout our nationwide locations.
In fiscal year 2007, RFB&D
distributed 502,501 recorded textbooks to 185,235 members
around the world.
With more than 37,000 digitally-recorded
titles in our CV Starr Learning Through Listening® Library,
RFB&D is the top producer in the world of audio textbooks
for people who can't effectively read standard print.
RFB&D's AudioPlus® digitally recorded textbooks
on CD are providing members with unprecedented navigation through
their extraordinary portability and ability to be navigated by
page, chapter or section at the press of a button. Studies conducted
by Johns Hopkins University revealed a 38 percent increase in
content acquisition for students with learning disabilities who
use RFB&D's AudioPlus digitally recorded textbooks.
Besides audiobooks in all academic
areas, RFB&D's special collections include medicine, environmental
issues, law, women's studies, Jewish studies, literature and fiction.
RFB&D offers both RFB&D's
Learning Through Listening Individual and Institutional Memberships.
Institutional memberships are valid
for 12 months from the day the school joins. Institutional members
may borrow a set number of audio textbooks based on a chosen membership
level.
Individual membership entitles
members to unlimited access to RFB&D's library and a reference
librarian service.
RFB&D audiobooks are password-protected
digitally-recorded books on CD, to comply with US copyright law.
Portable and desktop CD players
and computer software designed to play RFB&D's AudioPlus CDs
are available for purchase directly through RFB&D.
For more information about RFB&D,
call, toll free, 866-RFBD-585 or e-mail the appropriate department
listed on the CONTACT US page.
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