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New Jersey State LibraryTalking Book & Braille
Center
December 2, 2009
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@N04/3528585084http://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
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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