Archive for January, 2009
Native American Titles
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009NLS added 28 titles to its Native American collection, which includes folklore, history, mythology, fiction and works by Native American authors. The collection includes Juvenile, Teen, and Adult books in cassette and braille format. These titles will be published in the Braille Book Review or Talking Book Topics. Some titles are in process. The NLS Kids [...]
Screen-access Training Tool
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009JAWS is a computer based tool developed for people whose vision loss prevents them from seeing screen content. It reads aloud what’s on the PC screen. JAWS Tandem is a recent screen-reading software enhancement whose big feature is training. It allows 2 users in different locations to simultaneously listen to the same computerized voice on an Internet site. The target user [...]
2008 Nominations for Network Library Award
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) is calling for nominations for the 2008 Network Library of the Year Award. The awards commend excellence, innovation, and special achievement in providing library service to blind and physically handicapped individuals in a calendar year. NLS network regional (talking book) libraries may be nominated [...]
Books to Movies coming in 2009
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009The following talking books are coming to the movies in 2009. -
January
Not Easily Broken by T.D. Jakes (RC064822)
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (RC057116).
February
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (RC054845)
He’s Just Not That Into You (RC059020)
March
Watchmen (RC059463)
May
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (RC051799).
July
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (RC060262).
Reading Across RI Kick Off
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009The Reading Across RI “Launch” Conference kicks-off Saturday, January 31, 2009 at Bryant Univeristy. The Keynote Speaker, Ron Carlson, is author of this year’s book, Five Skies (RC065452). The conference is open to all readers across the State. Read more about this year’s book discussion program, a project of the Center for the Book at Reading Across RI website. At this [...]
Google Engineer Helps Visually Impaired
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009T.V.Raman, a blind computer scientist and engineer at Google, “is a leading thinker on accessibility issues”, says Paul Schroeder from the American Foundation for the Blind. He designs and alters technology by asking the question, ”How should something work when the user is not looking at the screen?” He developed a search engine that encourages preferences to [...]