Downloadable Audiobooks, Large Print Books and Braille: Borrowing Materials for IEP Students  from the NJSL TBBC November 13, 2009 1:15 – 2:15 NJASL Fall Conference
Elizabeth Burns Youth Services Consultant [email_address]
 
New Jersey State Library’s  Talking Book & Braille Center http://www.njsltbbc.org/
National Library Services for the Blind & Physically Handicapped (NLS) www.loc.gov/nls
www.flickr.com/photos/27652011@N04/3528585084 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Commercial Audiobooks Books on tape/CD Playaways Downloadable Books sjrlc.lib.overdrive.com  Listennj.com  www.listennjnw.com www.audible.com
Preloaded Devices www.playaway.com
Downloading www.listennj.com
Non Commercial National Library Services for the Blind & Physically Handicapped, www.loc.gov/nls Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, www.rfbd.org  Created outside copyright Not found in public libraries or bookstores
Who Uses NJSL TBBC? Blind Low Vision Deaf/Blind Physically Handicapped Reading Disabilities
Braille
Large Print
Large Print Newspapers: 8 point Adult books: 10 to 12 point Minimum size large print: 14 point Typical large print: 16 to 18 point
Children’s Books Novels: 10 to 12 point Middle Grade: 14 point Early Readers: 16 point Picture Books: 16 to 24 point Minimum size large print: 14 point Typical large print: 16 to 18 point
www.flickr.com/photos/playfullibrarian/3315024196/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Cassettes http://mrg.bz/AOMapN
 
 
 
 
Commercial Players http://www.humanware.com
But… there’s more to audiobooks than what you can buy!
Goose and Duck
A Friendship for Today
What You Never Knew About Beds, Bedrooms & Pajamas
Who Discovered America?
The Bill Martin Jr. Big Book of Poetry
BARD https://nlsbard.loc.gov
 
Magazines for Children and Teens
Magazines
Newsline http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Newspapers_by_Phone.asp
 
How Not To Be Popular
www.worldcat.org
The Catcher in the Rye
At Amazon.com
 
What about Textbooks?
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic www.rfbd.org
RFB&D CDs or Downloads Textbooks and school materials Fiction books and nonfiction Free individual membership Must be eligible Buy machine to listen to books Catalog of books only at RFB&D
Text To Speech www.amazon.com
Text to Speech Turns any book into an audiobook Need software or device Kindle  Computer Need copy of book on device Synthetic voice Mispronunciations
ASL Story Hour
 
School Visits
Online Newsletter http://www.njlbh.org/ysnewsletter/
Audiobooker: Booklist Blog by Mary Burkey http://audiobooker.booklistonline.com
Questions? Elizabeth Burns Youth Services Consultant [email_address]

NJASL Nov 13

Editor's Notes

  • #3 Introduce myself and the library
  • #4 New name, whyNew Jersey State Library’s Talking Book & Braille Center Soon we will be
  • #5 CHANGE TO TBBC WEBSITE
  • #7 History      1.  Dates back to 1931 in America       2.  Help visually impaired have access to books       3. Oral histories by J Harrington       4.   Blind received in mail free of charge       5.  Most books were educational       6.  Later became self help and literature            Once agreed on how to record books due to copyright issues        7.   Read by average citizens and early company employees History Continued:      4.   1970 audio moves to vinyl records are become used in schools and libraries       5.   Later with technology, cassette tapes are used for audio books        6.  Becoming popular with drivers and travellers.        7.  By 1980's started to become big business         8.   Books now being read by professional actors and sometime using more than one person Current History:    1.  CD's and Internet now open up the Audio book industry to the world and more and more people can have access to audio books     2.  People find it convenient, portable, easy and inexpensive (many can be downloaded free off the internet)     3.   Next generation from CD's are MP3 players, Playaways and Kindle         9.   Narrators have AUDIE AWARDS for best reading.  
  • #8 What you have already
  • #12 Who uses…not just blind, what each is, definitions, applications
  • #13 Braille…books, size, contracted, uncontracted, private, library, volumes, what is available
  • #14 Large print…difference in font size
  • #15 What is what, types of books we have, what grades, what is available
  • #19 Books on cassette .. May look familiar
  • #20 Digital books. Point out side, keys, functions, size, etc
  • #23 National Library Services has contracted with 3 companies to provide commercial readers for NLS downloadable books, ranging in price point from $349 to $1400. Shown here is the $349 VictorStream. You can download your favorite books and MP3s on your Stream and leave home with your library in the palm of your hand. This versatile, powerful DAISY-MP3 and NISO player lets you read and navigate through music and complex books, such as reference manuals and school books, as well as novels and magazines. You can also use its built in text to speech to read books in text format such as Bookshare. It includes features such as an integrated microphone to record voice notes. You can buy an inexpensive encryption device to give access to NLS & RFB & D books.
  • #26 CHECK AVAILABILITY
  • #27 CHECK AVAILABLE
  • #30 CHECK WEBSITE
  • #31 Simple…basic…why
  • #32 UPDATE
  • #35 CHECK TO SEE IF AVAILABLE books
  • #36 CHECK NOT AVAILABLE Not commercially, BTW… popular (Twilight, HP) but we provide mid list
  • #37 Pointing out..worldcat “no”
  • #46 American Sign Language Story Hour The Library hosts an Educational Story Hour each month from October until June. Audience: 2 nd – 5 th grade Deaf/HH students from Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf, Multiply Disabled teens from ESC -Hunterdon County, Open to Public Certified therapy dogs courtesy of Kindred Souls Canine Center Are on site at each story hour
  • #48 School & Library Visits