New Jersey State LibraryTalking Book & Braille

Center

December 2, 2009

• Elizabeth Burns

• Youth Services Consultant

• eburns@njstatelib.org

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

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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

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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

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

• eburns@njstatelib.org